RE: mounting ntfs partitions?
Not sure if your problem is resolved or not but I had a similar issue a while back and I was able to resolve like this:
http://blogs.koolwal.net/2009/02/24/howto-mount-windows-ntfs-partition-as-read-write-in-debian-linux/
I think somebody already mentioned ntfs-3g.
Kushal Koolwal
I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/
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> From: hans.ullrich@loop.de
> To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: mounting ntfs partitions?
> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 19:32:56 +0200
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> Am Montag 11 Mai 2009 schrieb hendrik@topoi.pooq.com:
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>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 06:33:06PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
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>>> Hans-J. Ullrich:
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>>>> how can I get read-write access as a normal user to a ntfs-partition?
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>>>> I trioed ntfsmount and pmount (with configured pmount.allow), but i
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>>>> found no way to get write-access as a normal user.
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>>> The ntfs module in the kernel offers only very limited write access. It
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>>> is a feature constraint you have to live with.
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>> A few years ago I heard that this constraint was to prevent damage to
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>> the NTFS file system, which the develoers were not sure they fully
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>> understood yet (Microsoft secrets and such). I thought that things had
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>> progessed since them.
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>> - hendrik
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>>>> What is the debian-way?
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>>> Use ntfs-3g.
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>>> J.
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>>> --
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>>> I often play sports / do exercise.
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>>> [Agree] [Disagree]
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> Ah, yes, this does it explain. I know, that ntfs to set r-w is always dangerous, and as far as I know, the kerne-module sets the ntfs-partition to read-only.
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> In my case, there are no important datas on the partition, I use it for testing purposes or as a container to save files for a short time. I just wondered, that users are not allowed to mount partitions r-w (usb, vfat, external drives), but meanwhile I know more about debian and mount. I discovered pmount.
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> Thanks for help!
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> Regards
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> Hans
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