Yankee Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 I have looked all over and I find users having a problem with this but they install ntfs-config and then write to ntfs drives. No so for me. I installed ntfs-3g and ntfs-config and all went well. Until I tried to read a drive. It won't let me. It only works if I am root user. I didn't try to write because oh this problem. I'm running 2007.1 and can't figure this out. I tried to change permissions and it won't let me do that either. Open for suggestions. [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee Posted January 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Ok, at http://www.linux-ntfs.org I found out I should use ntfsprogs as ntfs-3g is obsolete. I still can't change permissions. I can't unmount it to try and mount it read/write etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{BBI}Nexus{BBI} Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 (edited) Have you tried unmounting it via the mcc? Here's a link about changing permissions, go to this section 4.9 How do I change the permissions of a mounted NTFS Volume? http://www.linux-faqs.com/faq/misc/ntfs.php#4.9 Edited January 29, 2008 by {BBI}Nexus{BBI} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fercho Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Ok, at http://www.linux-ntfs.org I found out I should use ntfsprogs as ntfs-3g is obsolete. I still can't change permissions. I can't unmount it to try and mount it read/write etc. It seems to me that both projects are pretty much alive. http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ was updated less than a week ago and comes as an option with Mandriva, so that's what I will stick to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fercho Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Here's what I have done to add read/write capabilities to my NTFS drive: $ sudo /etc/fstab /dev/sda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1 /dev/sda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g rw,nls=utf8,umask=0222,uid=myuser,gid=myuser 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 where myuser is my actual Linux user name. That will restrict any other user to read-only access (umask=0222) but will give myuser ownership of the files in the mounted partition. Regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 (edited) Ok, at http://www.linux-ntfs.org I found out I should use ntfsprogs as ntfs-3g is obsolete. I still can't change permissions. I can't unmount it to try and mount it read/write etc. If you read more carefully, you will see that this applies for ntfsprogs 2.0.0, which is still not a part of many Linux distros. Notice also that performance-wise ntfsprogs is ***STILL*** slow+ somewhat buggy, and for that reason ntfs-3g is the recommended way to go. After all, the new ntfsprogs is nothing more than a fuse module, pretty much like ntfs-3g. Factly, I do not think ntfs-3g has been obsoleted at all... probably the opposite applies. Edited January 29, 2008 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee Posted January 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Lastnight it said this: "The ntfs-3g driver is an obsolete fork of ntfsmount. Use ntfsmount from ntfsprogs-2.0.0 instead." This is the page: http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfs-3g Ok, it is back to ntfs-3g and try to make it work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 (edited) Please read this The talk is largely between the ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs main devs and says a different story than the page above. The main reason ntfsprogs is projected as "the real thing" is, quite simply, because Apple is sponsoring it! Edited January 30, 2008 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee Posted January 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Well, get a heavy weight in there and there ya go... So I'm working with ntfs-3g now and still having problems. I read so much I forgot what was for what. After a brain rest I'm going to go back and take a fresh look at it and probably get it. It won't let me change permissions and I edited fstab and changed the 222 to 7777 and it was all forbidden. I must have read it wrong. I'm going to check out what fercho has to say above after some rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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