Comments on: Mount your widows Partitions and make it read/writable in ubuntu

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:24:57 +0000

Thanks buddy it helps…
Now I can Mount NTFS at Our Ubuntu-eBox Flatform File Server.

By: Leor

Leor — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:43:19 +0000

Just apt-get install ntfs-config

By: Marush Denchev

Marush Denchev — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:56:28 +0000

Great tutorial. It doesn`t work till I read the @Corey`s comment.

Thanks!

By: Tonio

Tonio — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:45:14 +0000

Thanks for the HOWTO.

It works with Ubuntu Feisty as well.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:01:13 +0000

Thanks a lot.

This worked very well.

By: Ankit

Ankit — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:52:24 +0000

Works like a charm.
I am using it on Ubuntu Edgy and its working perfecly.

Just one thing, when I did a mount, I got this msg:
WARNING: Deficient FUSE kernel module 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’. The safe FUSE kernel
driver is included in the official Linux kernels since version
2.6.20-rc1, or in the FUSE 2.6.0 or later software packages,
except the faulty FUSE version 2.6.2. For more help, please
have a look at /usr/share/doc/ntfs-3g/README.Debian. Thanks

I have libfuse version 2.6.3 installed.

Any ideas? Is it still safe to use this?

By: Jerms

Jerms — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:40:40 +0000

Thanks for this tut, reminded me how sensitive different sytems are to fstab. Other distros allowed mount w/out entry in fstab. Ubuntu 6.10 needs the entries, I just put ‘noauto’ option on.

By: Wasi T.P

Wasi T.P — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:20:02 +0000

Dear all,

How to change permission ntfs file to read/write with linux command?

Thank you.
Rgds,

By: neil

neil — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:31:03 +0000

# kevin Says:
December 16th, 2006 at 9:33 pm

root@ubu:~# ntfs-3g /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows
just followed the tutorial, and i keep getting this error, changed fstab verbatim from tutorial -> unmount -a -> mount -a. and ran ntfs-3g /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows directly. what gives? suggests using ntfsfix, but isn’t available on my machine or in any repository i have.

Failed to mount ‘/dev/hdb1?: Operation not supported
Mount is denied because the NTFS journal file is unclean. Choices are:
A) Shutdown Windows properly.
B) Click the ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ icon in the Windows taskbar
notification area before disconnecting the device.
C) Use ‘Eject’ from Windows Explorer to safely remove the device.
D) If you ran chkdsk previously then boot Windows again which will
automatically initialize the journal.
E) Run ‘ntfsfix’ on Linux which will reset the NTFS journal.
F) Mount the volume read-only by using the ‘ro’ mount option.
===============

You cannot mount a “dirty” partition. Booting windows, then doing a nice clean shutdown will likely fix things. Next time you boot to ubuntu your win partition will be mounted.

By: jsnelli2

jsnelli2 — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:29:05 +0000

Nevermind figured it out

By: jsnelli2

jsnelli2 — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:27:14 +0000

How do I edit the fstab file? I can’t save the changes since it is read only.

By: corehead

corehead — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:14:07 +0000

so, i got problems with this….i cannot even instal this driver, somehow i got an error in console that it “Couldn’t find package ntfs-3g”, where could i make mistake?
i get an error when updating source list: “rr http://lt.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Sources
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Fetched 4B in 6s (1B/s)
Failed to fetch http://lt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy/main/source/Sources.gz Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) ”
maybe its just some problem with some server that I am updating from….or something…my knowledge about this is really minimal….sorry about that ;]
still hoping for help ;]

By: Bob Browne

Bob Browne — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:54:43 +0000

Thanks for excellent info re. “If you want to mount FAT partitions on boot-up to allow users to read and write…”

I had struggled with this for at least an hour before finding your instructions. It worked perfectly for me using Dapper.

By: dariomk

dariomk — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:50:43 +0000

modprobe -l fuse
apt-get install ntfsprogs
/etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
ntfsfix /dev/hda1
if erorr
/etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults,ro,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
mount -a
if working

By: kevin

kevin — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:33:14 +0000

I keep getting an error about an old FUSE kernel,
WARNING: Old FUSE kernel module detected. This means, some driver features
are not available (swap file on NTFS, boot from NTFS by LILO),
and unmount is not safe unless you make sure the ntfs-3g process
naturally terminates after calling ‘umount’. The safe FUSE kernel
driver is included in the official Linux kernels since version
2.6.20-rc1, or in the FUSE 2.6 software package. Please see the
next page for more help: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#fuse26
I went to the website and I’m unsure about what they’re telling me to install, it doesn’t seem like it was compiled for ubuntu…

By: Si

Si — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:10:16 +0000

Just like to add the thanks of an ubunta noob. Great article!

By: Nefeksu

Nefeksu — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:42:30 +0000

Hi, I got it to work, thanks for the guide.

By: Nefeksu

Nefeksu — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:38:25 +0000

Hi guys,

I can’t get this bit to work:

“Now you need to import th GPG key for these repositories using the any one of the following command

wget http://flomertens.keo.in/ubuntu/givre_key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

wget http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/givre_key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -”

I just get timeouts, any other way to get the keys?

Cheers

By: tryckluft

tryckluft — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:06:22 +0000

This guide worked perfectly on my Ubuntu 6.10.

Thank you!

By: Aldir Polyméris

Aldir Polyméris — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:34:29 +0000

I’ve made all the step correctly but after rebooting (or with the mount -a command) I get an error:

The device ‘/dev/hda1′ doesn’t have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?

I think I selected properly because when I run fdisk -l I get:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 510 4096543+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 511 1020 4096575 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1021 4865 30884962+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1021 4335 26627706 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 4336 4801 3743113+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 4802 4865 514048+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

What can it be?
please help,

thank you