I'm relatively new in Linux, and I've not been able to access (neither read nor write) my other two MS Windows partitions (NTFS) while I'm using Mandriva. What should I do to be able read or write into my NTFS partition? Thx y'all.

I'm fairly new myself but I believe the you will not be able to write to NTFS from linux if you search the site you sould find what you need to be able to read from it

it should be as simple as mounting the partition

wish i could be more help

I dled the linux-ntfs kernel and have successfully mounted my ntfs partition. thx you all

It appears that when I restart my system, I have to manually mount NTFS again. Is there any way I can automatically mount my partition when my system startup (kinda like Window's msconfig)?

Hi,
Yes you can - in Mandriva Control Center -> Mount Points - >...Hard disk - > click on NTFS partition, then click on Toggle expert mode (bottom center button), click "Options" (on left) and uncheck "noauto" and check "user". After this, exit, save changes when prompted and on next reboot your NTFS HDD will be mounted automatically. This can be done for all your Hard disks if you have more.

Regards,
Valentin

hi,
i am a newbie ( as in complete newbie)... i have just installed mandriva 2007. The only prob at the moment in although i can read from my NTFS partitions, i cannot write to them. Is there any solution for that....
thank you

mkhan919> It's perfectly normal. Linux can read NTFS but can't write safely on it. If you really want to, you'll need ntfs-3g

The first step--install ntfs-3g i586 --you find at www.pbone.net,rpmfind.net

After this --run konqueror(or krusader) as root moderun comand-->at options mark -Run as a diferent user type :root
passworyour root password)

-->go in /mnt/ and create directory "win_c"
after this go in /etc/ and writhe in fstab.txt ---"/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,users,ro,exec 1 1"
reboot computer.After reboot you have in device-partition c
For another partition ...create in /mtn-- win_d-directory and write in fstab.txt "/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0,users,ro,exec 1 1 "--reboot.

Don't forget there is a security issue when making the NTFS partitions writable. Windows viruses, possibly residing in the linux partition, are not harmfully to linux, but can be transferred to NTFS without the knowledge of windows virus scanners.

I believe Mandriva has an ntfs-3g available from repositories, but if I remember correctly, it's version is below 1.0, that's why I installed the ntfs-3g from source and the Fuse from source, anything below version 1.0 is considered un-stable. Both of these latest source packages are stable, the fuse module that comes with Mandriva 2007 is deficient. I have two Windows XP and the four Linux distributions listed in my profile all using a shared NTFS data partition. The only Linux that supplied ntfs-3g over version 1.0 that I installed from repo is Debian Etch, the rest I used ntfs-3g from source and got rid of the shared /home partition because NTFS gives me unlimited file size and all my data is centralized.
Even after updating the kernel in both Mandriva & Fedora, I read & write without re-compiling anything. My virus scanner in Windows does dally scans once every couple months (when they get booted).

Very nice.
There is a difference with Mandriva compared to the rest which I point out in this thread.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=532570

The best way(for me) is to install Linux Defender(by BitDefender)or Clamav
and set him to scan ntfs partitions on acces.Personal i test LinuxDefender and is very good..

hi, first of all sorry for hijacking this thread but since i am facing a similar problem so i thought it better to post here instead of starting a new thread.

I am using Mandriva 2007 with kernel 2.6.18.8-1mdv .

I installed the latest version of fuse and ntfs as directed by the above thread. i followed the same procedure as adviced by juniorHacker, including deleting the fuse file etc. Everything seems to install okay.

Then i went to /etc/fstab and changed

/dev/sda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,user,auto,ro 0 0

to
/dev/sda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs-3g umask=0,nls=utf8,user,auto,rw 0 0



However, when i tried to boot the system the it crashed when it was mounting file system. If displayed something like
"NULL Pointer in Dereferencing ....................." (in case it is important, i will crash the system again and get the complete message).

i then rebooted the system with previous version of the kernel, 2.6.17* and this time it loaded okay but the win_d was not mounted. i restored the original fstab and now everything is back to normal. (NTFS is again ro since now i am not using ntfs-3g for mouting).

can you please guide me as to what may be the problem? is this a problem with kernel version ?

Thank you for your help.

mkhan919

I provide a link to another post where I give better instructions, in that post I mention how to setup fstab properly, you can go ahead and re-install the other kernel but maybe you should setup fstab properly first. If you use Mandriva's ntfs-3g, fstab can probably be set up the way you have it. This is what I mention in the other thread:

Your fstab should be like this:

And make sure you deleted "fuse.ko.gz" not the new one you built "fuse.ko".

if you set fstab at "default 0 0" you can't mount ntfs partition after
reboot
just set like cdrom where is write "auto"---write "ntfs" and delete "noauto".