NTFS Partition Problem !

01-26-2008	#1 (permalink)
GinnyBhullar Just Joined! Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ludhiana,Punjab Posts: 48	NTFS Partition Problem ! Hi ! I am using Live DVD of Knoppix 5.1. I want to write some files to NTFS partitons which are automatically mounted. I tried right click option to select " change read/write mode".. It showed confirmation box and I selected "Yes", but then error comes out that Code: The remount command failed. Maybe there is another process accessing the filesystem currently. Kindly guide me to solve this problem...

01-26-2008	#2 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Execute this Code: df -h It will list all mounted partitions and mount points. Navigate to NTFS mount point and try to write there. In case, nothing works, post the output of this Code: df -h fdisk -l __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

01-26-2008

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Here is the complete output :

Code:

root@1[knoppix]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root             2.5M   25K  2.4M   2% /
/ramdisk              387M  9.7M  378M   3% /ramdisk
/UNIONFS              9.6G  9.2G  378M  97% /UNIONFS
/dev/hdb              4.1G  4.1G     0 100% /cdrom
/dev/cloop            5.4G  5.4G     0 100% /KNOPPIX
/dev/cloop2           3.9G  3.9G     0 100% /KNOPPIX2
/dev/hdd3             9.0G  7.4G  1.7G  82% /media/hdd3
/dev/hdd5              13G  9.1G  3.7G  72% /media/hdd5
/dev/hdd1              16G   11G  5.6G  65% /media/hdd1
root@1[knoppix]# /dev/hdd5
bash: /dev/hdd5: Permission denied
root@1[knoppix]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdd: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdd1   *           1        2040    16386268+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdd2            2041        3697    13309852+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdd3            3698        4869     9412608    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hdd5            2041        3697    13309821    7  HPFS/NTFS

I am not allowed to move to any other drive partition...Writing to any partition is not available in this case...

01-26-2008	#4 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Execute this Code: su - umount /dev/hdd1 umount /dev/hdd3 umount /dev/hdd5 mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdd1 /media/hdd1 -o defaults,umask=0 mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdd3 /media/hdd3 -o defaults,umask=0 mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdd5 /media/hdd5 -o defaults,umask=0 Check /dev/hdd1, 3 and 5 folders. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

01-27-2008	#5 (permalink)
GinnyBhullar Just Joined! Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ludhiana,Punjab Posts: 48	Ok. I un-mounted all 3 drives. and tried to mount as per your given commands but now the error is as following" Code: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'

01-27-2008	#6 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	It means Knoppix 5.1 doesn't support NTFS write access. Either install ntfs-3g package Code: su - apt-get install ntfs-3g Execute mount command again. Or Replace ntfs-3g with ntfs in mount command but you wont have write access in NTFS partitions. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

01-27-2008

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Instead of ntfs=3g , I tried ntfs but then it shows following error:

Code:

knoppix@1[knoppix]$ su
root@1[knoppix]# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdd1 /media/hdd1 -o defaults,umask=0
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'
root@1[knoppix]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hdd1 /media/hdd1 -o defaults,umask=0
Couldn't mount device '/dev/hdd1' : Operation not supported
Windows did not shut down properly.  Try to mount volume in windows, shut down and try again.
Mount failed.

01-27-2008	#8 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Try to force mounting. Code: mount -t ntfs /dev/hdd1 /media/hdd1 -o defaults,umask=0,force __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

01-27-2008

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Quote:

Originally Posted by devils_casper

It means Knoppix 5.1 doesn't support NTFS write access. Either install ntfs-3g package

Code:

su -
apt-get install ntfs-3g

Execute mount command again.
Or
Replace ntfs-3g with ntfs in mount command but you wont have write access in NTFS partitions.

result of above commands is as follows:

Code:

knoppix@2[knoppix]$ su
root@2[knoppix]# apt-get install ntfs-3g
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package ntfs-3g

01-27-2008	#10 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	It means ntfs-3g is not available in sources. Execute this Code: less /etc/apt/sources.list Post output here. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

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