Problem in Mounting NTFS partition in Read/write mode.

[mr26]

Hi ,

I am a newbie to linux.. I have a problem regargind the mounting the windows NTFS file system.. When i mount the filesystem using mount ...

I can see the files but when I am attempting to write anyfiles to it.. there is an error sayinng that permissions denied...

I tried usign -w option with mount .. but in vain..

can anypne help me.. out.. i would be greatful...

[jnike]

Hi mr26,

As root, using sudo or su, check your disk layout using fdisk -l

than for example, depending on disk layout do;

# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -rw -o umask=0222

For a more helpful pointer see links below;


start [www.linux-ntfs.org]

RPM resource ntfs-3g

NTFS-3G: Stable Read/Write NTFS Driver

I hope this is of help

Jnike

[Jonathan183]

Hi ,

I am a newbie to linux.. I have a problem regargind the mounting the windows NTFS file system.. When i mount the filesystem using mount ...

I can see the files but when I am attempting to write anyfiles to it.. there is an error sayinng that permissions denied...

I tried usign -w option with mount .. but in vain..

can anypne help me.. out.. i would be greatful...

If you need more help you need to provide some information ...
1. what version of SUSE are you running ... is it 10.3 or some other version
2. post output of fdisk -l
3. post contents of /etc/fstab

[swerdna]

Short answer: install RPMs for ntfs-3g, libfuse2, fuse and ntfs-config.
Invoke the GUI configurator called ntfs-config with this root shell command: ntfs-config. You will then be asked if you want to mount your ntfs partitions read/write. Answer "yes".

Long answer:
• Check/install ntfs-3g, libfuse2 and fuse
• GUI application ntfs-config turns write permission on and off, one-click. See qualification below.
• External USB NTFS drives will not automount rw for users when powered on
• Fstab for Windows-like permissions (drwxrwxrwx):
/dev/sda2 /mnt/winxp ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
• CLI temporary mount for Windows-like permissions (drwxrwxrwx):
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /mnt/winxp
• Fstab for Linux-like permissions (drwxr-xr-x):
/dev/sda2 /mnt/winxp ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0022 0 0
• CLI temporary mount for Linux-like permissions (drwxr-xr-x):
mount -t ntfs-3g -o rw,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0022 /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3

Longest answer: HowTo: Mount your NTFS Filesystem/Partition for Read/Write Access in openSUSE 10.0 through 10.3

Swerdna

[Jonathan183]

If you need more help you need to provide some information ...
1. what version of SUSE are you running ... is it 10.3 or some other version
2. post output of fdisk -l
3. post contents of /etc/fstab

You can take a look at the OpenSUSE web site NTFS - openSUSE which gives instructions to setup read/write access. If you are still struggling or need some more help you can post the output indicated above and someone can advise how best to change the system.

I strongly recommend you use YAST to do the work if possible (which is certainly possible for versions 10.2 and 10.3).