Writing to NTFS partition within DSL

whho · 07-22-2009, 11:58 PM

Hello,

I want to write on my NTFS partition within my DSL. I have mounted the partition read-write, as follows,

Code:

/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/scd0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro)
/ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,size=201552k,size=196912k)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0666)
unionfs on /KNOPPIX/bin type unionfs (rw,dirs=/ramdisk/bin=rw:/bin=ro)
unionfs on /dev type unionfs (rw,dirs=/ramdisk/dev=rw:/dev=ro)
unionfs on /etc type unionfs (rw,dirs=/ramdisk/etc=rw:/etc=rw)
unionfs on /KNOPPIX/lib type unionfs (rw,dirs=/ramdisk/lib=rw:/lib=ro)
unionfs on /KNOPPIX/sbin type unionfs (rw,dirs=/ramdisk/sbin=rw:/sbin=ro)
unionfs on /KNOPPIX/usr type unionfs (rw,dirs=/ramdisk/usr=rw:/usr=ro)
unionfs on /ramdisk/var type unionfs (rw,dirs=/ramdisk/var=rw)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/hda5 type ntfs (rw)

However, it gives error messages when I try to write on it:

Code:

[/mnt/hda5]# ls >a
bash: a: Read-only file system

dmesg gives:

Code:

<6>apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
<5>apm: overridden by ACPI.
<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
<6>eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
<6>eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
<6>cs: cb_free(bus 1)
<6>cs: cb_alloc(bus 1): vendor 0x104c, device 0x9066
<4>PCI: Enabling device 01:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
<3>NTFS: Warning! NTFS volume version is Win2k+: Mounting read-only

I am able to write to some other FAT partitions but not NTFS. What's wrong? Do I have to download some extra package so as to able to write to NTFS.

Can somebody please help?

Thanks!

whho

tredegar · 07-24-2009, 07:52 AM

ntfs can only read NTFS disks. Writes will corrupt the NTFS filesystem. But the more recent ntfs-3g can read & write.
So you need something like this in /etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/hda5       /mnt/win        ntfs-3g    defaults

whho · 07-26-2009, 04:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tredegar

ntfs can only read NTFS disks. Writes will corrupt the NTFS filesystem. But the more recent ntfs-3g can read & write.
So you need something like this in /etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/hda5       /mnt/win        ntfs-3g    defaults

Thanks for your help. I actually used Knoppix and I could mount the partition read-write. The type was "fuseblk" as it shows from the mount command

Thanks again!

whho

karamarisan · 07-26-2009, 04:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by whho

The type was "fuseblk" as it shows from the mount command

Just FYI, this is correct, and Knoppix is using the same ntfs-3g recommended above. fuseblk refers to FUSE, or Filesystems in User Space (SpacE?), a platform for writing filesystem code that runs outside the kernel. ntfs is one of the filesystems you are likely to come across supported in this way (through the ntfs-3g package); two others are sshfs (which provides mountable filesystem access over sftp) and zfs (an extremely good filesystem that, for unfortunate reasons of the licensing variety, cannot be included in the Linux kernel).

whho · 07-26-2009, 11:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by karamarisan

Just FYI, this is correct, and Knoppix is using the same ntfs-3g recommended above. fuseblk refers to FUSE, or Filesystems in User Space (SpacE?), a platform for writing filesystem code that runs outside the kernel. ntfs is one of the filesystems you are likely to come across supported in this way (through the ntfs-3g package); two others are sshfs (which provides mountable filesystem access over sftp) and zfs (an extremely good filesystem that, for unfortunate reasons of the licensing variety, cannot be included in the Linux kernel).

Thank you very much for your info. Let me try in DSL to see if I can mount NTFS using ntfs-3g directly....

Thanks again!

whho