Mounting an external NTFS drive

[Brown-Brown]

Hi you all ,

the command I run is mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb / mnt/winxp
shows no error

I have my media/disk linked to the mnt/winxp file...
this the log when I display the mtab file

Code:
mount /dev/sda2 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
/dev/sdb on /mnt/winxp type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=512)



my fstab has this:

Code:
more fstab
/dev/sda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 1
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 1
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 1
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 1
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 1
/dev/sdb /mnt/winxp ntfs-3g defaults,users 0 0

#/dev/sdb1 /home/simpleDrive ntfs users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0



When I try to write to my disk it would never worked .... it has been just one time I got to write on the disk but It was a smaller 512 kb file and when I thought everything was running smoothly , next file I tried to store in the external drive .. did not work and ever since I turn my disk on and mount it manually nothing would let me write on the disk.. but to let you know I am not giving up on this one. hope to hear from you all

Please some help on this one
REGARDS,

[MSux]

Hi you all ,

the command I run is mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb / mnt/winxp
shows no error

I have my media/disk linked to the mnt/winxp file...
this the log when I display the mtab file

Code:
mount /dev/sda2 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
/dev/sdb on /mnt/winxp type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=512)



my fstab has this:

Code:
more fstab
/dev/sda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 1
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 1
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 1
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 1
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 1
/dev/sdb /mnt/winxp ntfs-3g defaults,users 0 0

#/dev/sdb1 /home/simpleDrive ntfs users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0



When I try to write to my disk it would never worked .... it has been just one time I got to write on the disk but It was a smaller 512 kb file and when I thought everything was running smoothly , next file I tried to store in the external drive .. did not work and ever since I turn my disk on and mount it manually nothing would let me write on the disk.. but to let you know I am not giving up on this one. hope to hear from you all

Please some help on this one
REGARDS,

Hello,

I'm a linux newbie but i'm so eager to learn after i got so fed up with microsoft and all microsoft products, and now i use suse 10.3

Regarding your post i get the same problem, when trying to write on my external USB Wester Digital HDD. I dunno i tried almost all thigs i found on this suse subforum and ii that it did is to make things worse from not being even to access the drive or to properly mount it.

The solution with:
1. usermod <username> -g usb
didn't work since it said no usb group.

Here is the link with smth similar:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sus...n-trouble.html

Here is a look of mz fstab file
/dev/sdb2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sdb4 /boot ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sdb3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
/dev/system/Third /Third ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2


For anyone that can help pleeeease help! Im having big issues with writing on NTFS and i need this since in my office all other computer run NTFS aka MS#¤"!#!

[swerdna]

@Brown-Brown
Change /dev/sdb to /dev/sdb1 (or 2, oe 3, whatever is the number for the partition)

More information here:
HowTo: Mount your NTFS Filesystem/Partition for Read/Write Access in openSUSE 10.0 through 10.3

Good luck
Swerdna

[swerdna]

@MSux
Your fstab contains no reference to an NTFS partition. You need to add a line if you want to automount an NTFS aprtition read-write. See the refernce that I left for Brown-Brown

Swerdna

[ganeshlinux]

Use the following command

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb[1-n] / mnt/winxp [you can use only sdb1 or sdb2 at a given point of time]

[Baloo]

ntfs-config is a great little GUI for doing exactly that. I found it in Yast add software. (I have packman and guru repositories so if you don't see it try adding those)

[MSux]

ntfs-config is a great little GUI for doing exactly that. I found it in Yast add software. (I have packman and guru repositories so if you don't see it try adding those)

Thank you so much for the help. The ntfs-config solved it. And it was so easy.....one click away.

THANK YOU!

I'm starting to love linux more and more and i'm starting to love linux forums also. What a great community i found. I like how linux users help each other and how other more experienced users treat newbies like me. No arraogance or ego whatsoever and i like that.

Again many thanks. You solved alot of my headaches.