NTFS in Kubuntu

[Cheese Roller]

I never had the problem in Ubuntu, but for some reason I cannot mount/read/write to NTFS drives.

How can I make this happen?

[dibl]

Re: NTFS in Kubuntu

Install the package "ntfs-3g" which is in the repos (open Adept Manager and mark it for installation).

Then you may need to edit /etc/fstab to automatically mount it. Is it a USB drive?

[Cheese Roller]

Re: NTFS in Kubuntu

It is an External Hard Drive.

[Cheese Roller]

Re: NTFS in Kubuntu

hal-storage-removable-mount-all-options- refused uid 1000

I installed it, and why trying to open the Drive in Konqueror I got this.

Could this be because I am using USB 1.1 and not 2.0?

This computer only has 1.1.

[Snowhog]

Re: NTFS in Kubuntu

Check that you have all the required groups in secondary groups for your user account.

K Menu | System Settings | User Management

Click the Administrator button, make sure your account is highlighted, and click on Modify...
In Secondary Groups ensure you have:

adm, admin, audio, cdrom, dialout, dip, floppy, lpadmin, netdev, plugdev, powerdev, scanner, video

[Cheese Roller]

Re: NTFS in Kubuntu

I have all those.

[Snowhog]

Re: NTFS in Kubuntu

Let's look at your /etc/fstab file. Open a console shell and type:

pg /etc/fstab

Copy and paste it for review.

[dibl]

Re: NTFS in Kubuntu

Take a look at this guidance -- you're going to want to add the "fuse" group to the user:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3084679.0

[Cheese Roller]

Re: NTFS in Kubuntu

I added myself to the fuse group. Same error. It shows the name of the drive as well as the icon on the desktop.

I'm a little nervous about doing those /media commands.

Will they erase anything on the drive? The whole point is that I need to rescue my data.

Also, wouldn't that rename the drive to mickey?

[dibl]

Re: NTFS in Kubuntu

I'm a little nervous about doing those /media commands.

Will they erase anything on the drive? The whole point is that I need to rescue my data.

Also, wouldn't that rename the drive to mickey?

Yes, I didn't mean you needed to literally follow the process, I only wanted you to understand about the fuse group and ntfs-3g.

So, you can call it whatever you want in /media, but you have to call it something if you're going to mount it there.

[Cheese Roller]

Re: NTFS in Kubuntu

Will that change the drive name for other computers? Or is this just temporary?

[Cheese Roller]

Re: NTFS in Kubuntu

system:/media/sdb1

This is where I go to access the drive.

Does that mean it is already mounted?

Same error occurs.

Also, in the case, the Red Light is solid, which is what used to happen on my old computer when a hard drive was dead. It works fine in the Vista I have.

[opie]

Re: NTFS in Kubuntu

"system:/media/sdb1

This is where I go to access the drive.

Does that mean it is already mounted?"

It looks like it is mounted.


Have you tried manually mounting it. Mounting it onto a particular point doesn't change the drive name. In the instructions below the name of the drive will not be changed to testntfs. This is simply the mount point you are using.

Create a directory in media called testntfs (assuming you don't already have such a directory in media. If by some freakish chance you do then name it something else).

sudo mkdir /media/testntfs

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/testntfs

Now can you access the drive at media/testntfs?