Not /etc/mtab you should edit /etc/fstab and it should be like this :- /dev/sdb1 /media/disk ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0 0 0
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Chris <bbsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I use nautilus to mount my usb ntfs hard drive, but I can't write to it. > If I try to create a directory, I get the message: Error creating > directory: Operation not permitted > > In /etc/mtab I find the partition was mounted using ntfs, not ntfs-3g: > /dev/sdb1 /media/disk ntfs rw 0 0 > > If I manually mount it with the type "ntfs": > mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/disk > I also can find the line "/dev/sdb1 /media/disk ntfs rw 0 0". > > If I manually mount it with "ntfs-3g", everything works fine. > mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/disk > In /etc/mtab I can find: > /dev/sdb1 /media/disk fuseblk rw,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0 > > Now, I can conclude that nautilus mounts my usb drive using ntfs. > How can I make nautilus mount usb ntfs devices using ntfs-3g. > > ps. I recently do an upgrade, more than 100 packages were upgraded. Since > then, ntfs-3g doesn't work fine. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025 Registered Ubuntu User # 28654
