NTFS Partition Problem !

[GinnyBhullar]

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

The remount command failed. Maybe there is another process accessing the filesystem currently.

Kindly guide me to solve this problem...

[devils casper]

Execute this

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

df -h
fdisk -l

[GinnyBhullar]

Here is the complete output :

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...

[devils casper]

Execute this

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.

[GinnyBhullar]

Ok. I un-mounted all 3 drives. and tried to mount as per your given commands but now the error is as following"

mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'

[devils casper]

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

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.

[GinnyBhullar]

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

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.

[devils casper]

Try to force mounting.

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdd1 /media/hdd1 -o defaults,umask=0,force

[GinnyBhullar]

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

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:

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

[devils casper]

It means ntfs-3g is not available in sources. Execute this

less /etc/apt/sources.list

Post output here.