Cant mount ntfs drive in os x 10.8.4

I've tried with several drives and bought software but still cant mount a pc hdd.
Needed strongly to work.

NTFS is a windows format, not Mac. You will have to reformat it to ExFat on a PC or use software such as this:
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/
Ciao.
Note that these are recommendations for use as an external HDD.
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Problem mounting ntfs drives

[svs@mugen media]$ ls -l
total 104
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-10 15:20 cd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-06-17 19:44 d1
drwxr-xr-x 7 svs root 8192 1969-12-31 16:00 disk
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32768 2008-06-19 18:56 disk-1
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40960 2008-06-24 11:01 disk-2
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 2008-06-24 10:51 disk-3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-10 15:20 dvd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-10 15:20 fl
I have few doubts ..
1.Why disk-1,2,3 have root as their owner(they r NTFS , disk is FAT) & disk doesnt
2.
[svs@mugen media]$ sudo chown -c svs disk-1
Password:
changed ownership of `disk-1' to svs
[svs@mugen media]$ ls -l
total 104
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-10 15:20 cd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-06-17 19:44 d1
drwxr-xr-x 7 svs root 8192 1969-12-31 16:00 disk
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32768 2008-06-19 18:56 disk-1
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40960 2008-06-24 11:01 disk-2
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 2008-06-24 10:51 disk-3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-10 15:20 dvd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-10 15:20 fl
this means chown is not working ....
3.wen i hiberbate windows i cant access my ntfs drives , y?
p.s disk-1,2,3 are coloured "green" instead of "blue" in terminal as if sticky bit is set

/media is a dynamic directory, unlike /mnt, that's probably why chown doesn't work.
Changing contents of a drive mounted in some OS while it is hibernated can be dangerous. That's why Windows drives are unmounted when you hibernate Linux and that's probably why you can't access your ntfs drives if Windows is hibernated.

Problems mounting ntfs drives

hidar, all. new arch user says hi.
i'm attempting to mount an ntfs drive at /dev/sda1 to /media/Data
i'm using ntfs-3g, and wrote an entry in fstab for the drive
however, i can't launch fuse to run ntfs-3g
when i run modprobe fuse i get the error
could not load /lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/modules.dep: no such file.
now the problem here is that i'm running 2.6.34, so
/lib/modules/2.6.34-ARCH/modules.dep should be the place modprobe is looking for the file, but it isn't.
how can i fix this?

oh, man, gg. i'm a noob.
solution here. it involves restarting.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=3314

[SOLVED] Cannot mount ntfs drive

Every time I try to mount my Windows 7 hdd, I receive an error:
fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy
The commands I used to try to mount all resulted in the same error:
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs
sudo mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/C0940E83940E7BE2 /mnt/ntfs
Switching to root also did not remedy the error. Putting the entry in fstab does not mount it at boot, giving the same error.
fdisk -l reveals the following:
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x79109c6b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 97659134 48829536 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 97659135 107426654 4883760 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 107426655 1953520064 923046705 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xed6ad455
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 976771071 488384512 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
EDIT: Solution:
As it turns out, a couple years ago, I had a mirrored RAID. Even when got rid of the RAID, got a new drive, reformatted and installed Arch, my secondary, NTFS drive would not mount.
Here is exactly what fixed it:
Issuing the command `cat /proc/mdstat` shows all RAID arrays. Mine showed the following:
Personalities :
md127 : inactive sdb[1](S)
488386496 blocks
`sudo mdadm --stop /dev/md127` stopped the array.
`sudo mdadm --remove /dev/md127` removed the array.
new output of `cat /proc/mdstat`
Personalities :
unused devices: <none>
`sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/1` worked.
Last edited by AngryKoala (2011-06-11 23:30:31)

vadmium wrote:
You don’t happen to have something that sdb1 partition mounted or opened somewhere else? If I try to mount my NTFS partition while it’s already mounted it gives the same “Device or resource busy”.
What does the “mount” and “cat /proc/mounts” tell you?
Output of mount:
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=506959,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
tmpfs on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777,size=10m)
tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755,size=10m)
/dev/sda3 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
Output of cat /proc/mounts:
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
sys /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=506959,mode=755 0 0
run /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext4 rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0

Can't mount NTFS drives on 10.5.8

I was given a 1TB WD external drive today that won't mount on my MBP. When I plug it in, I get a window that says, "The disk you inserted could not be read by this computer."
Under Disk Utility, I can see the drive icon and gather the info under "Format: Windows NT file system (Tuxera NTFS)" When I click to manually mount it says "Mount Failed".
I downloaded trial software from Tuxera and another from a company called Paragon. Both are system preferences that are supposed to allow the ability to write to those drives. I was hoping it would just let me read, but no such luck.
I was able to read it on a Windows machine at my neighbors so I know that the drive works.
I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks in advance.

Bonsai3 wrote:
What should I format drive #2 as so that it will work on my Mac as well as his PC?
NTFS will be fine. you might want to uninstall the other NTFS apps currently on your Mac and install the _*NTFS 3G*_ driver instead.
alternatively, you could format the drive for Mac and install MacDrive or [_*HFS+ for Windows*_|http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows> on his PC - @ your expense, of course

Cant mount internal drive

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When I plug them in they should show up in Dolphin? They don't. Any help would be appreciated.

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just did a fresh install of arch, first time i havent used kde or gnome, just install openbox
using thunar. when i click on a drive, i get Failed to mount 100GB Filesystem", Authentication is required."
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I'm trying to get my NTFS formatted USB disk to mount at boot. I'm using FSTAB, but it fails with an error when it tries to mount- only problem is, arch boots so quickly I can't see it. It works fine mounting manually afterwards (using mount -a or explicitly telling it to). It also works fine within XFCE4, using thunar/volman.
I suspect the probem is that the drive hasn't been properly initalised when it's being booted.
The best solution, would be to have some kind of process that doesn't just mount drives when they're plugged in, like happens now, but that also just mounts all drives it finds that aren't already mounted. Is there anything that does this?
The second best solution would be to make arch run a mount command at the very end of boot- possibly and addendum to on of the rc files? I don't really want to do this, since it just seems a bit messy.
Cheers for any help!

Looks like ntfs module doesn't load immediately on the boot, just a little bit later so system cannot mount ntfs drive in the boot time. I see simple solution. Just add mount string into /etc/rc.local. rc.local starts at the end of boot process so usb device initialized and ntsf module loaded:
mount /mnt/Terra
or
mount -o remount /mnt/Terra
Last edited by knedlyk (2009-09-29 20:15:37)

[Solved] Non-root user cannot access mounted ntfs filesystem

Hi -,
i have a dualboot system (arch/xfce + win7) and i use a ntfs partition /dev/sda2 to store files i use with both operating systems. I added the partition to fstab and it gets mounted, but i cannot access it with my non-root user. With root it works fine...
My fstab:
# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
LABEL=home /home ext4 defaults 0 1
LABEL=root / ext4 defaults 0 1
LABEL=swap swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/sda2 ntfs defaults 0 2
Is there any option that allows all users to use the mounted device? Or how is this usually done ...
Last edited by muzzel (2012-05-30 20:39:58)

See: NTFS-3G for important setup information.
My fstab line looks like:
/dev/sdb1 /media/Win_USB ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=0022 0 0
This sets up some important parameters which the NTFS-3G Wiki Page covers. Basically, "ntfs" is only a basic driver and is built into the kernel. "ntfs-3g" is a much better, and less disk-eating, driver that you should install and use if you need the drive in Linux any more than occasionally. My fstab line makes my user (1000) the owner and the masks lets me write and etc to it. When you install NTFS-3G it is automatically used when you use the mount command to mount NTFS drives. In fstab, as above, you would specify it explicitly.
You can find your own user number by entering "id" at a terminal.

[KDE] Force ntfs drives to be case insensitive. How?

Hi to all,
I use KDE and I mount usb ntfs drives with the applet (no fstab configs).
I would like to configure KDE and ntfs-3g to mount ntfs drives using the mount option "windows_names" to force linux to consider that filesystem as case insensitive (as is the default under Windows XP).
Is there any config file I can use to set such an option?
Thank you,
Xwang
PS I don't know if it is the correct forum to post such a question. In case it isn't, can some moderator move the discussion to the correct forum, please?

Short Answer: No.
I did some digging and it looks like this is not possible to set in a config file.
KDE uses udisks "under the hood" to mount filesystems. In most cases, KDE just asks udisks to use its default settings. However, sometimes KDE will pass along extra mount options. For example, KDE forces udisks to use the flush option on vfat volumes as a result of this bug report (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273792). This is all done in the source code (solid/solid/backends/udisks2/udisksstorageaccess.cpp).
UDisks has a bunch of default options, but they are also set in the source code (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/udisks/tree … lesystem.c). You could recompile with those defaults changed if you wanted to.
The KDE Solid backend for hardware has some plain text rules files in /usr/share/apps/solid/actions where you might be able to intercept KDE and insert your own program. Probably it is not worth the trouble.

Can't mount ntfs from linux

Dear Sirs,
I have install linux Redhat5.3 release 2.6.18-128.el5PAE.i am trying to mount some of the drive of windows 7 on my linux system.
Someone can help me with the rpm for the same.

[linux.softpedia.com/get/System/.../ntfs-3g-15028.shtml] linux.softpedia.com/get/System/.../ntfs-3g-15028.shtml
or
[www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download|www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download] www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download|www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download
Use ntfs-3g package to mount ntfs drives into linux.
use following command at shell prompt
$ mount -t /dev/sda1 /mnt/drive_win7
Please find your drive such as sda1 or sda2 or anything from fdisk command and press p to print and press q to quit.
Also, if you want to mount every time you login into linux system.
Then you have to change /etc/inittab file.
Google it out. Easy commands out there for newbies like me and you there.
Regards,
Dave.
Edited by: 897450 on Dec 19, 2011 3:15 AM

Just bought a mac air with OS X v.10.7 Lion, for work I need to read and write NTFS drives, I install MacFuse and NTFS-3G, but it can not mount (recognize?) External HDD, in my MBP with Snow Lepard it work just perfectly... help please.

Just bought a mac air with OS X v.10.7 Lion, for work I need to read and write NTFS drives, I install MacFuse and NTFS-3G, but it can not mount (recognize?) External HDD, in my MBP with Snow lepard it work just perfectly... help please.

Reinstall MacFuse with the one from http://www.tuxera.com/mac/macfuse-core-10.5-2.1.9.dmg. If that doesn't work, you can use Paragon NTFS for Mac 9.0 which has been designed to work with Lion.

Just bought a mac air with OS X v.10.7 Lion, for work I need to read and write NTFS drives, I install MacFuse and NTFS-3G, but it can not mount (recognize?) External HDD, in my MBP with Lion it work just perfectly... help please.

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Sorry in my MBP Snow lepard it work.. don't have Lion In MBP

Mounting USB drive as regular user (with ntfs-3g)

Hello. First of all, I not asking to do the homework for me, rather is someone can help me understand why I can't get this work.
I spent the last night trying to figure how mount an USB drive as a regular user, using ntfs-3g. I read the related wiki entries and researched quite a lot in the forums. I came up with this:
fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 /home ext3 defaults,noatime 0 2
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb ntfs-3g noauto,uid=0,gid=0,noatime,umask=000, 0 0
I created a ntfsuser group, added my user to that group and trim permissions to the ntfd-3g executable (link in this post). That allows me mount the partition as root and read/write as regular user. It works, so (i think) not big deal here.
However if I add user to the mount options the following error shows up:
Mount is denied because setuid and setgid root ntfs-3g is insecure with the
external FUSE library. Either remove the setuid/setgid bit from the binary
or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated FUSE support and make it setuid root.
Please see more information at http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged
What bugs me the most is I don't understand why I can't mount as regular user when the user option is set in the fstab. Shouldn't that allow regular users to mount and unmount? Is not like that I'm mounting and dismounting USB drives every 5', but I would like to get this done because I know it can be done
Sorry for asking such trivial question, but I sense that I'm missing something really stupid and I just can't figure what it is

Beware of the double post! (+1)
Ok, I decided I'd get this to work, although the method and the implications it could have might not seem pretty to some. There are certain conditions for a user to mount any ntfs volume with ntfs-3g, I will name them here:
1. ntfs-3g with integrated fuse support. You'll get this by:
1A. Removing ntfs-3g and fuse from your system if you have them installed as separate packages, so do this as root:
pacman -Rn ntfs-3g
pacman -Rn fuse
Now you can install the new package.
1B. Getting a modified version of the PKGBUILD found in that AUR link previously mentioned by me, here's mine:
# Maintainer: Gula <gulanito.archlinux.org>
# Slightly modified by anderfs
# Don't forget to setuid-root for the ntfs-3g binary after you install this
pkgname=ntfs-3g-fuse-internal
pkgver=2010.5.16
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Stable read and write NTFS driver (whit internal fuse suport)"
url="http://www.tuxera.com"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('GPL2')
depends=('glibc')
conflicts=('ntfs-3g')
makedepends=('pkgconfig')
options=('!libtool')
source=(http://www.tuxera.com/opensource/ntfs-3g-${pkgver}.tgz
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ntfs-3g-fuse-internal/ntfs-3g-fuse-internal/25-ntfs-config-write-policy.fdi)
sha1sums=('895da556ad974743841f743c49b734132b2a7cbc'
'200029f2999a2c284fd30ae25734abf6459c3501')
build() {
cd "${srcdir}/ntfs-3g-${pkgver}"
ac_cv_path_LDCONFIG=/bin/true ./configure --prefix=/usr \
--with-fuse=internal --disable-static || return 1
make || return 1
package() {
cd "${srcdir}/ntfs-3g-${pkgver}"
make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install || return 1
ln -s /bin/ntfs-3g "${pkgdir}/sbin/mount.ntfs" || return 1
install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor"
install -m644 "${srcdir}/25-ntfs-config-write-policy.fdi" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/" || return 1
Save this as PKGBUILD, preferrably in an empty directory so it doesn't clutter things up when you build it.
1C. Now go to the directory where you saved it and do this as a regular user:
makepkg PKGBUILD
After that's done, you'll get a package called ntfs-3g-fuse-internal-2010.5.16-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz, or something similar.
1D. Install that package as root:
pacman -U ntfs-3g-fuse-internal-2010.5.16-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
If all went well you now have ntfs-3g compiled with integrated fuse support.
2. The ntfs-3g version must be higher than 1.2506, this is already covered, the package installed from AUR matches this requirement.
3. The ntfs-3g binary must be set to setuid-root, to accomplish this you shall do the following as root:
chown root $(which ntfs-3g)
chmod 4755 $(which ntfs-3g)
I used 4750 instad of 4755, I guess that last bit can be a matter of personal taste as long as it isn't something obnoxious like "7".
4. The user must have the right access to the volume. Okay, this is the ugly part, volumes are owned by root and managed by the disk group with permissions brw-rw----, this means you have to add any users you want mounting this volume to the disk group.
4A. So, do this as root:
gpasswd -a [user] disk
Where [user] is obviously the name of whichever user you're adding to the disk group, do this for any user you want mounting this volume.
Any users currently logged in will have to log out and back in for these change to take effect, this most likely includes you.
4B. Now that you logged back in, try this:
groups
One of the groups listed should be disk, if it's not there you didn't completely log out of all open sessions.
5. The user must have the right permissions/access to the mount point. For a user to be able to mount something to a mount point, that user needs to have read permission (pretty self-explanatory), write permission (so the user can make any changes to the sub-structure of the mount point), and execute permission (so the user can change-dir to that mount point) to it. Mount points can be anywhere, so this really depends where you're mounting.
In my case, I'm mounting these volumes on certain directories under /mnt/, for example /mnt/example. If you're mounting stuff there, you might as well take advantage of the fact your "mounting user" is already in the group disk, and do the following as root:
chgrp disk /mnt/example
chmod 774 /mnt/example
Now users in the disk group will be able to manage these mount points.
6. Mount it. That's it, you should now be able to mount ntfs volumes as an "unpriveleged enough" user. Here's an example of what you'd have to put in /etc/fstab:
UUID=XXXXYYYYXXXXYYYY /mnt/example ntfs-3g noauto,noatime,user,uid=0,gid=6,fmask=137,dmask=027,rw 0 0
uid=0 means root will be the owner of this mount-point and anything in it after it's mounted. This is due to the fact that even though users might own their mountpoints and have rwx permissions on them, you might still not want them to write to the mounted ntfs volumes. Remove this if you want them to be able to write to the volume.
gid=6 means this will be managed by the disk group in my system. Perhaps the disk group has a different id in your system, run "id root" to find out, as root usually is part of this group.
fmask = 137 means the owner (root) can do anything with files in this volume except executing files. Group members (disk) can only read files here, not create or execute them. And other users can't do anything in this volume.
dmask = 027 means the owner can do anything with directories (execute here is needed to chdir), users can't write directories but they can read or execute in them (once again, needed by 'cd'), and finally other users still don't have any access.
You can use whichever fmask and dmask makes sense to you, or use an umask instead.
Last edited by anderfs (2010-07-15 11:34:48)

NTFS drive won't mount on rMBP 10.8.5

Hi all,
I've read and tried most of the discussed advices but it seems like the rMBP still can't even mount the NTFS drive.
I've also tried to format my hdd to exFAT with the windows and still the rMBP can't mount it.
I have tuxera ntfs installed and it doesn't seems to be able to read the drive also.
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