Re: problems read/write mounting of NTFS

[Bob McGowan]

Bob McGowan wrote:

Bob McGowan wrote:

Krzysztof Lubański wrote:

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:03 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote:

But, it was formatted with NTFS and I was not able to write to it[...]
[...]

I've also adjusted the associated options in /etc/fstab, but I still can't write to the disk.

  Hello.

  The standard NTFS kernel driver and ntfsprogs have only a limited
write support. E.g. the kernel driver only allows to change existing
files, but without changing their length.

I then thought I should try the FUSE based tools, so I removed the ntfsprogs package and libntfs9 that it depends on and tried to install ntfs-3g. But it depends on 'libfuse2 (>=2.6), but all that's available in Etch is 2.5.3-4.4, which is already installed. [...]

  NTFS-3G is not in stable yet, try installing it from
http://backports.org/. It will surely allow you to write.

Thanks.

That's the rub - I did try to install NTFS-3G, from backports, but it has the dependency mentioned (on libfuse2 >=2.6), which didn't get resolved by the installer. I'll check backports again, and see if the libfuse2 library is there. If so I'll try installing it "manually" and report back.

Now, to see about using it ;)

Thanks for the help.

OK, fuse 2.6 and libfuse 2.6 are on backports.org, but I had to download the deb files manually and used dpkg to install them. After that, the ntfs-3g package installed just fine.

Well, closer, but not quite there...



WARNING: Deficient Linux kernel detected. Some driver features are
         not available (swap file on NTFS, boot from NTFS by LILO), and
         unmount is not safe unless it's made sure the ntfs-3g process
         naturally terminates after calling 'umount'. If you wish this
         message to disappear then you should upgrade to at least kernel
         version 2.6.20, or request help from your distribution to fix
         the kernel problem. The below web page has more information:
         http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#fuse26





mount reports this for the device:



/etc/fstab has:

/dev/sde1       /media/ntfs     ntfs-3g rw,user,noauto  0       0





Any ideas?

Thanks.

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Bob McGowan

I'm using kernel 2.6.18-5-686, which has the fuse driver, but it's not full featured. I get this warning: I've downloaded the source code for fuse version 2.6.5, compiled the driver only, and installed it. The warning message is gone. And I can mount the disk device rw as me. The problem is, I can't unmount it ;( /dev/sde1 on /media/ntfs type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096) I don't see the "user=rmcgowan" that I'm used to seeing when I mount a VFAT formated device. I believe that's part of the problem, as 'man mount', under 'user' states the name of the user who mounted the device is saved, so they can unmount it. By setting the "users" option (note plural), any user is allowed to unmount. This allows me to do so, but it would be nice to know no one else can do it.

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