Mounting NTFS

[TitanKing]

Hi guys, I recently had this bit of bad luck, everything was fine could see all my mounted ntfs partitions, but then for some odd reason, the one ntfs (Windows) drive, when I enter I see no files ? Why would this be, I tried to remount it but it tells me I need to format the drive to mount it. Is there anyway of mounting the drive without formatting ? The Windows drive boots up just fiune...

 

Thanks in advance...

[scarecrow]

Read access for NTFS for most Linux distros (excluding Fedora and a few more) is a non-issue... can you post your /etc/fstab please?

[Gowator]

You could also have changed the permissions on the mount point somehow...

 

before doing much else try from a console, logged as root

 

umount /mnt/<yourdrive>

 

if it won't unmount its probably open somewhere.

you can find it and kill it with fuser

e.g.

fuser -km /mnt/ntfs1

will kill all process accessing that filesystem

 

you should then be able to unmount

You can then try and explicitly check the permissions with

ls -l /mnt/ntfs1

 

if its readable only by root then files mounted on it will be too.

you can

chmod 555 /mnt/ntfs1

and then it will be readable and executable by everyone

then remount explicitly

 

mount /dev/hda(x) /mnt/ntfs1 -t ntfs -o ro

 

(this assures readonly)

[ianw1974]

This is my fstab:

 

[ian@europa ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs notail,noatime 1 1
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0

 

the line you need to make sure matches yours are the parameters on this line:

 

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0

 

of course /dev/hda1 might read something else, so don't change this in your fstab, just make sure the other parameters are the same. If you're using Mandriva, then /mnt/windows should exist, but check this first to make sure it does, since this is your mount point. Then set the rest exactly like mine.

[TitanKing]

Thanks fo the replies guys, I will have a look at it tonight and post my findings.

 

You are a great community !