Howto: How To Get Full Read And Write Support For Ntfs

That should read:
"system -> file manager -> filemanager - super user mode" (ie a dash and not an arrow-dash between the second "filemanager" and "super user mode"). And it means go to KMenu, or your gnome equivalent, and navigate from "system" to "file manager" to filemanager - super user mode".

And reference your question, you HAVE found it.

By navigating as indicated above, this provides you a file manager with root permissions, and it should be used sparingly. I have found the more experienced I get with SuSE, the less and less I ever want to resort to that specific menu item. Frankly, its simply too powerful (and hence if one is not careful, can be very dangerous to one's system).

Oh, and troopa, WELCOME to SuSE forums.

Perhaps (IMHO) a question like this is best asked in a different thread, as is clouds the NTFS instructions in this thread, with side aspects that are global, and not specific to NTFS read/write setup. Mind you, thats only MHO.
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now i think im stupid and not the problem...i just cant find anything named "filemanager"
i found these instructions as well but the code doesnt work for some reason.-->
http://en.opensuse.org/Desktop_Customizati...Super_User_Mode

btw .its best that the admins decide if they want to split this subject into a new thread.its all the same to me i hope to get some help...here or there

Now close that window down and reboot. You should have full read write access to that NTFS partition now. Enjoy.
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I done what you suggested but now when i try to open NTFS disk i am getting error message such as

[mntent]: warning no final newline at the end of /etc/stab

mount unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'
...
I have entries in fstab file such as

#/dev/sda2 /windows/C ntfs ro, users, gid=users, umask=0002, nls=utf8 0 0
#/dev/sda8 /windows/D ntfs ro, users, gid=users, umask=0002, nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda2 /windows/C ntfs-3g silent, user 0 0
/dev/sda8 /windows/D ntfs-3g silent, user 0 0
please suggest me what to do..
thanks

Im getting trouble getting mine working.

#/dev/sda1************/windows/C********** ntfs****** ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdd1************/windows/C********** ntfs -3g****silent,users 0 0
#/dev/sdb1************/windows/D********** ntfs****** ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdd2************/windows/D********** ntfs -3g****silent,users 0 0

what do i need to modify?
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You have almost everything right here EXCEPT you have a space in ntfs-3g. No spaces between "ntfs" and "-3g"

Hello, can someone/Crashoverride tell me what's wrong with the recommendation on the ntfs-3g site for fstab, namely:

/dev/hda2********** /mnt/winxp************ ntfs-3g******defaults 0 0

That's are my adaptation of their configuration. It works well for me. BUT am I missing something important??

I also would like to know if the RPMs on the openSuse dot org site for ntfs-3g and fuse are OK to use rather than the up to the minute tars. That way I can install/uninstall using Yast.??? Am I creating a problem for myself?

Thanks

Swerdna

I have a 300G NTFS drive in a USB enclosure. How can I get USB to use the 3G file system?

I have a 300G NTFS drive in a USB enclosure. How can I get USB to use the 3G file system?
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Suppose your external partition is e.g. /dev/sdc1, then make a folder to mount it in, e.g. /mnt/ntfs
If you want windows-like permissions like this: drwxrwxrwx, then insert into fstab like this:

/dev/sdc1/mnt/ntfs****ntfs-3g****defaults****0 0

If you want Linux-like permissions like this: drwxr-xr-x, then insert into fstab like this:

/dev/sdc1****/mnt/ntfs****ntfs-3g****uid=1002,gid=100,umask=0022****0 0

Here's the background reading:
HowTo: Mount your NTFS Filesystem/Partition for Read/Write Access in openSUSE 10.2

Swerdna

Suppose your external partition is e.g. /dev/sdc1, then make a folder to mount it in, e.g. /mnt/ntfs
If you want windows-like permissions like this: drwxrwxrwx, then insert into fstab like this:

/dev/sdc1/mnt/ntfs****ntfs-3g****defaults****0 0

If you want Linux-like permissions like this: drwxr-xr-x, then insert into fstab like this:

/dev/sdc1****/mnt/ntfs****ntfs-3g****uid=1002,gid=100,umask=0022****0 0

Swerdna
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Thanks.
That will work with a USB mount? USB doesn't always mount in the same place though. I will try it.

I took the drive out of the USB box and plugged it into the internal IDE cable. It would not mount - had a message saying it needed a check and to boot into Windows twice. Since my house is a Microsoft Free Zone that was not an option. Did man mount and found you can mount it with -o force to work around that problem which worked and I was able to write to the drive with NTFS-3G. I added "force" to the options in the fstab line and that worked too. Here is my fstab line:
/dev/hdb5 /big1 ntfs-3g force,silent,users 0 0
Hope this helps somebody else.

All I did was download fuse and ntfs-3g from the prospective sights. Untared each one, then as root cd to the extracted directory and typed (for each one starting with fuse first) './configure', 'make', 'make install'. Then 'mkdir /Shared', then 'mkdir /Shared/Ntfs Volume 1'.
Then 'kwrite /etc/fstab' and added this line to the bottom of the file.
"/dev/sdb7 /Shared/Ntfs Volume 1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0"
Rebooted and was good to go.
FUSE
NTFS-3G

Hi, I installed Fuse and moved on to install ntfs-3g. After I ./configure to ntfs-3g, there was a warning message:

FUSE is NOT installed with root directory executable prefix. This means *
* that automounting NTFS volumes during boot could fail. You can configure *
* FUSE to prevent this the below way during its installation: *
* ./configure --exec-prefix=/

So I reconfigured fuse with those options and still the same warning message occurs. I went ahead and finished installation of ntfs-3g anyways since the automounting isn't crucial to me, but it would be nice if I could get that configured correctly...Any ideas? TIA

This worked quite well for me. I remember it being easier in Fedora, but whatever. At least you have presented a working solution.