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Hi, I have mounted two NTFS partitions and set them to auto-mount on boot however for some reason I am getting permission denied errors when attempting to write to them. ...
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    Question Mounting Problem

    Hi,

    I have mounted two NTFS partitions and set them to auto-mount on boot however for some reason I am getting permission denied errors when attempting to write to them. How do I go about resolving this?

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    Put your fstab config file here or commands you are using, if you expect more useful help ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by hugortega View Post
    Put your fstab config file here or commands you are using, if you expect more useful help ...
    and which Linux you are running. some ship with NTFS write as default while some need ntfs-3g
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    Selinux restrictive mode doesn't allow partitions mounting at boot up. Which distro are you running? Post the output of mount -a command here.
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    /dev/sda1 /mnt/vista -t ntfs -r -o uid=root

    This has given me the ability to write to the partition however now I can't list any files/folders in it. What should I be doing?
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    Entry in /etc/fstab should be :
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    /dev/sda1  /mnt/vista  ntfs  defaults,umask=0  0  0
    If you are mounting partition manually then execute this
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    mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/vista  -o defaults,umask=0
    You will have read access only. You have to install ntfs-3g package for NTFS write access.
    You havn't mentioned distro name. As we asked earlier, which distro are you using?
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    I'm using Arch.
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    You have to install ntfs-3g first.
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    pacman -Sy ntfs-3g
    Replace ntfs with ntfs-3g in /etc/fstab file and you will have write access in Vista partition.
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