How can I mount a removable hard disk and make it can be written?

spychan · 04-12-2009, 01:01 AM

My system is Debian 4.0. This system can mount USB(fat) automatically and makes the disk writable. But for the removable hard disk(NTFS),it can mount automatically, but I cannot write on the disk. How can I figure out this problem?

Udi · 04-12-2009, 01:20 AM

The default NTFS driver in Debian doesn't support writing to NTFS partitions. You can install the "ntfs-3g" driver by running (as root):

apt-get install ntfs-3g

You then have to edit your /etc/fstab accordingly. More info can be found on www.ntfs-3g.org.

maresmasb · 04-12-2009, 07:36 PM

Generally you can use '-remount' option for the mount command to re-open a device in writeable mode. As already said, the requested mode has to be supported by the device driver for the given filesystem (especially for NTFS).