mounting my NTFS partition.

Amsterdam · 08-27-2004, 01:14 PM

I am running FC2, im a noob sry...

I want to mount my second hard drive, it has one partition on it, a NTFS partition.

i have made a dir in /mnt/<New Drive>
I whent back to root dir and typed: mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/<New Drive>
this gives an error: wrong FS type. Is this not possible, mounting a NTFS partition in Fedora C2?

PenguinPwrdBox · 08-27-2004, 01:32 PM

This is the question:
Is the kernel that you are using compiled with read support for NTFS?
If not, you can either patch it, or recompile......

mjmwired · 08-27-2004, 06:04 PM

Try reading here: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora2.html

Amsterdam · 08-28-2004, 07:04 AM

Wow, perfect link...thank you so much...all working perfect now!!!!

you guys rule!

Amsterdam · 08-28-2004, 08:08 AM

but...

ok now i added the following line to my fstab file in /etc/:

mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/AnimeHDD -t ntfs -r -o umask=0027,uid=admin

I want my user admin to have full read write execute access to this hdb1 ntfs partition.

The automatic mount works fine and my admin can view the content of this mounted drive...

but...

there is nothing in it. For some reason its empty. Why?

it should contain folders filled with .txt, .gif, .ogm and .avi files.

please help.

gr,

Amsterdam

masand · 08-28-2004, 11:52 AM

hi

try adding this to /etc/fstab

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/AnimeHDD ntfs auto,owner,exec,umask=000 0 0

and then see if ur user can acess the partitions
also write support fror NTFS is not good in linux, u just can replace file and cannot create, a new file

regards
gaurav

kostason · 08-28-2004, 12:39 PM

hi
correct me if I am wrong but the -r option is for read only filesystem.
Copy from "man mount": -r Mount the file system read-only. A synonym is -o ro.

Try the -w option instead.

Anyway write access is dangerous on ntfs file system.

I use the following in my fstab:
"/dev/hda6 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0"
and it works fine, without write access.
You may also add your user "uid=admin" after the "umask=0222".

I hope I was of some help.

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Kostason

masand · 08-28-2004, 12:46 PM

hi

write in NTFS is of no use also ,!!!!!
u cannot ceate any new files, i have been using the latest driver with the kernel 2.6.8.1

regards

Amsterdam · 08-29-2004, 05:17 AM

Thank you for the advise...but...

Tried your way of mounting, worked the same as my way unfortunately.

Drive is mounted, but when i open the folder nothing is in it.

It seems to mount the device but without the content.

If this doesnt work, I will be forced to use Microsoft again.

masand · 08-29-2004, 05:41 AM

hi
try changing the permisions after entering the root account and then
in ur browser go to the directory where u have the drive mounting ur ntfs partitons
now i beleive u can see ur files from root???
so riht click on the directory where ur ntfs Fs is mounted and
try changng permissions from
ther
give read access to "others" also

regards

Amsterdam · 08-29-2004, 05:52 AM

Unfortunately...

I logged in as root, changed permissions to 777 made my default user "admin" the file owner even, but still nothing in the folder

Another odd observation, the free space is 5GB it says. But it is a Drive of 160GB with at least 130GB Free space.

help....

masand · 08-29-2004, 06:12 AM

hi

it is unfortunate that this does not work out for u
but as i said earlier i am using the NTFS driver after i compiled my kernel for it
so might this be making any difference???

also i too have seen such problems before that the empty space reported is not correct, but it happens to be okay next time reboot
and they do happen later also

regards

kostason · 08-29-2004, 11:40 AM

OK
plz check the following.

Did you install the right "kernel-ntfs"?
plz post the output of the command "rpm -qa | grep kernel"

also check the architecture of the kernel and the kernel-ntfs that u have (i586, i686). They must be the same.

also plz check your "/var/log/boot.log" file for an error message like this:
"mount: mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel".

good luck

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Kostason

Amsterdam · 08-29-2004, 02:48 PM

hello, tu.

Quote:

rpm -qa | grep kernel:

kernel-ntfs-2.6.8-1.521
kernel-2.6.5-1.358
kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.131
kernel-source-2.6.5-1.358
kernel-2.6.8-1.521

Quote:

also check the architecture of the kernel and the kernel-ntfs that u have (i586, i686). They must be the same.

rpm -q --queryformat "%{ARCH}\n" kernel:

- i686
- i686

Quote:

also plz check your "/var/log/boot.log" file for an error message like this:
"mount: mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel".

- All succeeded it says.

im really at a loss of ideas.

kostason · 08-30-2004, 03:37 AM

just noticed above. Did u add in the fstab the following command?

Quote:

mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/AnimeHDD -t ntfs -r -o umask=0027,uid=admin

If yes remove the "mount". It does not meant to be there.

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Kostason