write delete to NTFS disk

[menendez]

Hello,

 

I was in Madriva and copied some files to a WinXP NTFS disk for temporary safe keeping.

Now I want to delete them. WinXP will not let me delete nor will Mandriva. When in Mandriva if I try to move to trash I get a "Could not write disk full error " from Konqueror.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks, Jose

[scarecrow]

ntfs-3g is installed and the fuse module loaded/running. Correct, or not?

If the answer is yes, please "cat /etc/fstab", if the NTFS volume is non-removable.

[menendez]

ntfs-3g is installed and the fuse module loaded/running. Correct, or not?

If the answer is yes, please "cat /etc/fstab", if the NTFS volume is non-removable.

 

 

If I look at the disk partitions in MCC is says it is of type:NTFS-3G and is mounted

 

 

[jose@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fstab

# Entry for /dev/hdb1 :

UUID=03d82053-6085-4098-81ca-74136eea16d9 / ext3 defaults 1 1

# Entry for /dev/hdb6 :

UUID=d95a5534-840d-4d57-8641-552b1fae1b19 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

# Entry for /dev/hdb5 :

UUID=dabf886d-e420-4edf-9544-4c696b934196 swap swap defaults 0 0

# Entry for /dev/hda1 :

UUID=EA24F5FB24F5CA99 /media/hd ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

[jose@localhost ~]$

 

 

I also edited the fstab to try this:

 

[jose@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fstab

# Entry for /dev/hdb1 :

UUID=03d82053-6085-4098-81ca-74136eea16d9 / ext3 defaults 1 1

# Entry for /dev/hdb6 :

UUID=d95a5534-840d-4d57-8641-552b1fae1b19 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

# Entry for /dev/hdb5 :

UUID=dabf886d-e420-4edf-9544-4c696b934196 swap swap defaults 0 0

# Entry for /dev/hda1 :

#UUID=EA24F5FB24F5CA99 /media/hd ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

UUID=EA24F5FB24F5CA99 /media/hd ntfs-3g locale=el_GR.UTF-8,defaults 0 1

[jose@localhost ~]$

 

 

But I m still getting the error of disk is full if I try to delete files from that disk

Edited April 19, 2008 by menendez

[menendez]

I was finally able to delete them while being logged into WinXP.

Although I couldn't say waht changed to stop error messages on the XP side.

[scarecrow]

Hey, are you Greek?

UUID=EA24F5FB24F5CA99 /media/hd ntfs-3g locale=el_GR.UTF-8,defaults 0 1

You could put in there an extra argument

uid={your-current-user-UID}

to have full access to that volume as that particular user, but if your hal policy rules are set properly, this is not necessary at all.

Do you have any file in the folder /etc/hal/fdi/policy ?

If you have, please copypaste its contents here.

[menendez]

No not Greek, I copied and pasted that new line from another thread on this forum.

I will delete the locale= statement

 

The policy folder is empty

[scarecrow]

So, it's me the one to blame, probably... although I've stated clearly that

locale=el_GR.UTF-8

should be replaced by your ACTUAL locale settings.

Simply copypaste the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
 <match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
   <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
	 <merge key="volume.fstype" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
	 <merge key="volume.policy.mount_filesystem" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
	 <append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">locale=</append>
   </match>
 </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

and place it (as root) in the /etc/hal/fdi/policy directory, under some name like "preferences.fdi"

Now, either restart HAL, or reboot.

Any better?

Edited April 21, 2008 by scarecrow