ntfs-3g and ntfs-config

[Yankee]

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.

 

 

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[Yankee]

Ok, at http://www.linux-ntfs.org I found out I should use ntfsprogs as ntfs-3g is obsolete.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.

[{BBI}Nexus{BBI}]

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}

[fercho]

Ok, at http://www.linux-ntfs.org I found out I should use ntfsprogs as ntfs-3g is obsolete.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.

[fercho]

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,

[scarecrow]

Ok, at http://www.linux-ntfs.org I found out I should use ntfsprogs as ntfs-3g is obsolete.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

[Yankee]

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.

[scarecrow]

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

[Yankee]

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.