ntfs Read/Write problem

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Hi
I sometimes need to read/write files to my windows partition,but although I can read and copy files from windows I cannot write to the windows partition, I get the message
"Access denied-could not write to /windows/D/media.
I have ntfs-config installed also ntfs-3g. This has worked in the past when running Suse10.3. The only other difference in my system is that I have installed Wubi on my windows partition so that i could play about with Ubuntu, could this cause this problem?

Thanks for any help and advice given.

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Its likely you simply need to tune your /etc/fstab file. Can you post here the output of copying and pasting the following, one line at a time, in a gnome-terminal or a kde konsole:cat /etc/fstab
df -Th
su -c 'fdisk -l’and enter root password when prompted.

Unlikely, although I confess I do not know the first thing about Wubi.

With the information I requested, we can likely provide you an edit to your /etc/fstab file that will solve your problem.

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Hi the output is as follows
ian@linux-hs47:~> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP2014NS088J1JL803742-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP2014NS088J1JL803742-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP2014NS088J1JL803742-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1200JB-00WD-WMACM2070708-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1200JB-00WD-WMACM2070708-part5 /windows/D ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
ian@linux-hs47:~> df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 ext3 20G 16G 3.4G 83% /
udev tmpfs 506M 108K 506M 1% /dev
/dev/sdb3 ext3 162G 106G 48G 69% /home
/dev/sda1 fuseblk 21G 19G 1.1G 95% /windows/C
/dev/sda5 fuseblk 92G 53G 39G 58% /windows/D
ian@linux-hs47:~> su -c ‘fdisk -l’
Password:

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x97499747

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2611 20972826 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2612 14593 96245415 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2612 14593 96245383+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00077b1d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 2874 24321 172281060 83 Linux

Thanks for the reply

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OK thanks. That looks very straight forward.

I believe you need to

  • Change fmask=133 to fmask=113
  • Change dmask=022 to dmask=002

So please change your /etc/fstab file to:

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP2014NS088J1JL803742-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP2014NS088J1JL803742-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP2014NS088J1JL803742-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1200JB-00WD-WMACM2070708-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002,locale=en_GB.U TF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1200JB-00WD-WMACM2070708-part5 /windows/D ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002,locale=en_GB.U TF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

Then restart your PC to MS-Windows, and ensure you close Windows properly. Then restart to openSUSE, and if you closed MS-Windows properly, you should have (under openSUSE) read-write to your NTFS drives. They will be mounted under /windows/C and /windows/D.

My reference for this is:
NTFS - openSUSE

Note, you need to use root permissions to edit the /etc/fstab file. If running KDE you can open an editor with:kdesu kwrite /etc/fstaband if using gnome, something like
gnomesu gedit /etc/fstabenter root password when prompted for a password when editing. Be very careful, for if you mess this up, you will not be able to boot your PC.

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That worked.

Thank you very much for your help.