ntfs partition write problem

http:// · 07-17-2008, 06:20 AM

hello,

im using etch. and i cant seem to write on my laptops ntfs partition.

i added this to fstab

/dev/sda2 /mnt/ntfs ntfs user,rw,umask=1000 0 0

this made me able to read the ntfs drive but not write on them. i tried the suggestions of around 4 sites on how to fix this using ntfs-3g and ntfsmount and a couple of fstab config variations.

like in ntfsmount:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/c ntfs-fuse fmask=0111,dmask=0,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

but it's still the same. still cant write on the disk.

can anyone point me to a site that offered a solution that has worked for them lately? it would be much appreciated.

thank you for your time,

mikel

stress_junkie · 07-18-2008, 03:15 PM

Your original post's examples show different partitions and drives. Are you possibly getting confused? Is it /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda2?

What happens when you try to mount using ntfs-3g at the command line?

Code:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/c

If that succeeds then

Code:

sudo touch /mnt/c/delete.me

Please include error messages in your reply.