Hello, I seem to be having a problem creating a link to my NTFS partition in Mandriva 2007.0. The link to my NTFS drive was working fine and appearing in "Devices" on the desktop but after installing NTFS-3g the link is gone while the home and / partitions remain, along with my DVD-RW.

I am able to read and write to my NTFS partition with NTFS-3g installed and it's mounted just fine. I can even create a link to the mount point on the desktop and that will also work. I'm unable to create and icon in the "Devices" area on the desktop though. When I open that window (the title bar displays 'media:/' of course) and try to create a new link to a hard disk device I'm able to get as far as choosing /dev/hda6 as the device, I name it NTFS, but upon clicking OK I get the error, "Could not write to media:/NTFS". NTFS of course could be substituted in that case with any name for the partition.

I noticed that when I check the properties of /mnt/NTFS owner, group, and others have View and Modify access. Owner and group are root, I'm logged in as a user. When I click "Devices" on the desktop and try to add the devices the permissions show as Owner can read and write, group and others "Can read", owner and group are again root.

I'm assuming I can't create the link because I don't have root permissions when I open that folder and this is probably just a very simple thing but I'm new to this (again).

Please help me get that icon back there! Thanks in advance

PS: I edited fstab so dev/hda6 mounts as NTFS-3g on boot but I doubt that'd be the problem since it is in fact mounted and usable.

Hi, Gram, LQ has a really cool search function, and I remember discussing this topic here just last week,

Give it a go.

you need dkms installed, only thing I can remember at this time.

Can you access it via a filemanager like konqueror?

Mine were found in /media, but I moved them to /mnt.

Thanks for the info...I've tried searching for the forums and found a related thread but it was for DVD/CD-RW drives. I'm not sure if there was any sort of conclusion to it either. To be honest I'm still fairly new to Mandriva 2007 (I played around with 10.0/10.1 a couple years ago though) so some of what's posted in those threads doesn't make a lot of sense.

My problem with searching is that I don't really know what to look for on this one. I've tried media:// and ntfs-3g and I'll be looking for DKMS now. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

My fstab,

/dev/sda8 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda10 /Archive ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb12 /LFS ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb9 /Music ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb10 /Spare ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb5 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda1 /mnt/Base_C ntfs-3g umask=0,nls=utf8,user,auto,rw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/Win_c2 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 /mnt/Win_d vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/Win_d2 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,user_xattr 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,user_xattr 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb8 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb11 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb6 /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda7 /var/ftp ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

I remember going in to start, system, config, configure your computer, mountpoints,

here you can change where you cd are mounted from and hd,s as well.

The new kernels use ntfs-3g to read and write to ntfs, dkms is a dynamic kernel module loader, you'll need to have the ntfs-dkms, dkms-base (or common), fuse, dkms-2.0.16-1mdv2007.1.noarch, dkms-fuse-2.6.3-1mdv2007.1.x86_64, and a few others, ntfs-3g-1.0-2mdv2007.1.x86_64, ntfs-config-0.5.5-2mdv2007.1.x86_64. ( that is close to everything, but my system)

I've never used the system devices window to do anything, just my habit, so I can really help there.

Good luck, and search "can't access my ntfs partition"

On most systems, it would be a matter of searching Applications > Systems Tools > Configuration Editor > apps >nautilus; there is an item in there that allows enabling/disabling device icons on the desktop - but I'm afraid I have forgotten just which one.

Hi,
Unfortunately you can find your 3g-ntfs disk on Devices. Better way is to create icon on desktop: create new -> Link to application. Then in Application tab -> Command add following: "konqueror /mnt/your3g-ntfsdisk". Also you can change icon with corresponding from devices.

Now you have icon onto desktop to access your 3g-ntfs partition, BUT CANT UNMOUNT with it. Don't try to change your /etc/fstab file because wrong settings can make your 3g-ntfs partition unaccessible.

Regards,
Valentin