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

Ok, guys.Since yesterday is enabling r/w on ntfs the easiest, ever
1.add repo: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/.../openSUSE_10.2/
2.install fuse, ntfs-3g and ntfs-config packages
3.for enable, use ntfs-config command as root in terminal

If you use KDE, you can install fuse_kio package.For r/w it is unnecessary, but it is for better integration to KDE.

Enjoy

After installing FUSE and NTFS-3G using YaST in openSUSE 10.2 I am still unable to write to my NTFS partitions.

In fstab I have

/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs-3g ro,users,gid=users,umask=0000,nls=utf8 0 0[/b]

for the windows partition on my primary drive and an identical entry for my mass storage drive. Have tried umask=0002 and umask=0022 with identical results.

Additionally in my start-up log I am getting the following warning:

WARNING: Deficient Linux kernel detected. Some driver features are
not available (swap file on NTFS, boot from NTFS by LILO), and
unmount is not safe unless it's made sure the ntfs-3g process
naturally terminates after calling 'umount'. If you wish this
message to disappear then you should upgrade to at least kernel
version 2.6.20, or request help from your distribution to fix
the kernel problem. The below web page has more information:
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#fuse26[/b]

According to uname -r my kernel is 2.6.18.8-0.5-default.

When attempting to write something to my NTFS partitions, say for instance create a new folder, after issuing the command using the menu available from my mouse right click (Create New->Folder->Folder name->) the folder is not created and I see the error "Could not make folder /windows/D/New Folder".

Is the problem I described above related to another configuration setting? Do I need to update the kernel?

In fstab I have
[coed]/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs-3g ro,users,gid=users,umask=0000,nls=utf8 0 0[/code]
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This looks more complex than need be to me.

In my case I have:

/dev/hdb1****/windows/E****ntfs-3g****defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8****0****0

Note I set the permissions to /windows/E such that every user had read/write access.

drwxrwxrwx**1 root root** 8192 2007-08-04 00:13 E

This may be over kill.

In my case I have:

/dev/hdb1****/windows/E****ntfs-3g****defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8****0****0

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That works great! Thank you!

After installing FUSE and NTFS-3G using YaST in openSUSE 10.2 I am still unable to write to my NTFS partitions.

In fstab I have
for the windows partition on my primary drive and an identical entry for my mass storage drive. Have tried umask=0002 and umask=0022 with identical results.

Additionally in my start-up log I am getting the following warning:
According to uname -r my kernel is 2.6.18.8-0.5-default.

When attempting to write something to my NTFS partitions, say for instance create a new folder, after issuing the command using the menu available from my mouse right click (Create New->Folder->Folder name->) the folder is not created and I see the error "Could not make folder /windows/D/New Folder".
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Your mistake here was that the "ro" in the fstab line stands for "read only".

i tried downloading the ntfs 3g using the link provided but it tells me the file can't be found on server.
Anywhere else i can download it?

i tried downloading the ntfs 3g using the link provided but it tells me the file can't be found on server.Anywhere else i can download it?[/b]

I just went to the URL where the suse ntfs-3g and fuse files are kept for opensuse, and the links work fine. Both ntfs-3g and fuse are there. Just navigate to your version of SUSE. Maybe try again. This is where you should be looking:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/filesystems/

If you are adding the repos to YaST or Smart, you need to go a level deeper, ... ie for openSUSE-10.2:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/filesystems/openSUSE_10.2/

Hello,
I don't if this the right place for this:
I'm using opensuse 10.3. I tried to mount my external HD, which has two partitions, the one is NTFS (part1) and the other is FAT (part5). NTFS-3G, NTFS Config, and fuse_kio are already installed. My fstab lines for both partitions are:

/dev/disk/by-id/usb-WDC_WD25_00BB-22GUC0_0-0:0-part5 /media/Pelem ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-WDC_WD25_00BB-22GUC0_0-0:0-part1 /media/SWISNIFE1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0[/b]

As root I can r/w the partitions. The problem is, every time I tried to mount either one of the partitions as user, kio mount helper keeps complaining:

rror opening partition device: Permission denied
Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1': Permission denied[/b]

In YAST--> System--> Partitioner --> Fstab options I checked the option "mountable by user", but still I cannot mount it as user.
What should I do, so that both partitions can be automatically or by user mounted? Any Suggestion?

Thanks,

Modifying NTFS 3.1 partitions (especially the build included in Vista) in *nix is still considered very risky. Shouldn't this be noted in your first post? It would suck if someone thought it was mounted read only for no reason, followed all these steps thinking it was a safe practice and blew up their NTFS partition.