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.

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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

Weird problem with NTFS drive

I went on and compiled my own kernel, it's not the first time i do it, but what happened to me yesterday was so unusual.
i put the kernel compilation at night, i went to sleep, the morning i had the package ready, no errors what so ever, then i went and restarted the computer, now after the kernel loads i get an error when it tries to auto mount that ntfs drive, well i thought i made a mistake in the kernel, but no, the reason it got an error was it could not find the UUID.
well, i went and tried using blkid on it, nothing was returned.
then tried to mount the partition manually, it said it contains an error and i need to run chkdsk.
i tried using the ntfsfix, nothing helped, still complains to run chkdsk.
well, tried to log in into windows from grub (nothing was changed there and it worked as before), i got it does not recognize that system file. although fdisk -l shows NTFS!
I went far and created a bootable rescue cd with some tools (windows based), it recognized the drive, but not as NTFS, just as an unformatted drive, and it have 100% freespace, this is so weird, i really don't care of the files that were there, it was just an winxp installation with outlook (and the emails are kept on the server) but what i really care is that it could be that ntfs-3g unmounted the partition some how in a wrong way causing the partition to fail? (sounds weird to me..)
i also ran chkdsk but the chkdsk could not check that partition as it said it can't access it, unknown file systems.
Lucky nothing worthy to me was deleted because i had nothing in there, but i still feel something bad happened to there, it's must have been ntfs-3g because i didn't use anything else on that partition and also i didn't use the partition at ALL (no copy/del , etc..) since the computer was up.
I tried many ways saving the partition, but no luck, everything i tried complained about wrong fs system (including windows tools).
Well, more space to archlinux now

If you have a two devices banged out, deleted them and restart. It should auto detect the devices and load the driver. I had a problem like this. That worked for me.
What kind of hard drive is it.

Problems mounting fat drives

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Can anyobne suggest anything? This is quite frustrating...

Check dmesg to see if the stick is recognized as /dev/sda. If it is, run fdisk /dev/sda to see what partitions are on it.
If there are several partitions, mount the stick with
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Problem mounting network drive after upgrading router firmware

Hi guys,
It's been a while since I last posted a question of my own here, but I'm at my wits end. As I may have mentioned, I live in France, and my ISP is Free (no, not free, Free...). I've got what they call a "box" here, i.e. a sort of super-modem that will let you connect to the Internet via xDSL (and soon VDSL2), receive hundreds of TV channels, read BluRay discs, store files (videos, music, photos, what have you) on a integrated NAS, place and receive phone calls, whether via a landline (DECT) or, since recently, through a femtocell.
All in all, the package is impressive and works flawlessly. But...
(Of course, there had to be a "but)
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I must add that I haven't changed anything on the Mac since, or before, upgrading the "box" firmware.
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OK, you must think I'm going bananas, but my issue is gone... For now...
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[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

Problems mounting USB drives

I am having some problems getting USB flash drives to (auto) mount on my system.
In the past, when I plugged in the device (a simple USB flash drive), it showed up in Thunar and I could click on it to mount it. Now nothing shows up in thunar when I plug in the device. dmesg shows the following, so I know the device is being recognized:
usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 14
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Bus 002 Device 014: ID 0781:b6b7 SanDisk Corp.
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Thanks in advance.

You might try reformatting the usb drive using Disk Utility. Use MacOS Extended(Journaled). That might help.
lenn

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.
Message was edited by: OGELTHORPE

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.
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Mount USB NTFS drive at boot

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.
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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
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[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,
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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).
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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.
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Hello,
My fiancee recently got a MacBook Pro to replace her aging PC. She has an external Maxtor 300GB hard drive formatted in NTFS with ALL her photos, music and files on it. None of the Macs in our household (all running 10.4.9) can recognize the disk. According to Apple, Tiger should at least be able to read this disk, but it cannot.
I even took the Maxtor to the Apple Store and they had no idea why it wouldn't work.
I know other people have had similar problems with NTFS drives. I've searched the forums, but I haven't found any answers.
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For years I have heard "Apple fan-boys" preaching about how MAC is much better than PC. I am one of the idiots that bought into the hype, and I am regretting it tremendously. I spent over $4000 this month converting my family's computers from PC to Mac, and I am finding it to be one of the biggest mistakes of my life. I have had nothing but problems.
My latest and greatest problem is getting my Mac(s) to mount and read some NTFS drives. I know NTFS does write on MAC without external software, but I am not trying to write NTFS with my Macs. I bought a Glyph 8TB external hard drive that is formatted for Mac. I am simply trying to take five different NTFS external hard drives, and drag their data onto my new 8TB Glyph drive that is formatted to Mac. Here is where it gets weird. I have 2 Samsung 500GB drives (NTFS) that mounted automatically, read and data transferred to my new Mac formatted drive (HTP+) without any problems. But I have 2 Glyph 6TB (NTFS) drives, and a Toshiba 2TB (NTFS) drive - none of which will mount. They didn't mount automatically, like the Samsung drives. They do all show up in disk utility, but when you click "mount" is gives you the "mount failed" error (with the "repair" option grayed out, and unavailable). When plugged back into a PC, all three of the drives function perfectly - so clearly the drives are fine. I would greatly appreciate it if anyone can help. I have spent an entire day of my life searching forums for resolutions on this one simple issue. I see a ton of people are having similar issues. Unlike PC forums that have always been easily able to resolve my major issues with a quick search, it seems that these NTFS mounting issues have Apple, and the entire Apple community, stumped.
To anyone considering the Mac vs. PC conversion, think long and hard before you convert to Mac. The Macs are more fun for video, music and photo editing. But for every other practical application I find that PC was much better. I am regretting giving Apple over $4000 of business. I wish that I could return all 4 Macs that I purchased.
My relevant system info:
Macbook Pro 13"
Intel i7, 8GB memory, 750GB HD
OS X 10.9.4

I can't seem to find a way to edit my initial post (stupidly, it only shows the edit tab on replies). I just want to correct the 6th sentence of my original post. It was meant to read:
"I know NTFS does NOT write on MAC without external software, but I am not trying to write NTFS with my Macs."

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