Re: usb drive (ntfs file system) not mounted automatically in debian 5.0 lenny

["goran@dobosevic.com" <goran@dobosevic.com>]

Jonatán Guadamuz Espinoza wrote:
> El mié, 01-04-2009 a las 07:09 -0800, Vivek Sahukar escribió:
>   
> > I have debian 5.0 lenny installed on my laptop; with windows xp
> > service pack 2 installed in separate partitions of hard drive.
> > my flash drive (vfat filesystem) is automatically mounted when it's
> > plugged into usb port.
> > But my external hard drive and windows partition drive (both ntfs
> > filesystem) are not automatically mounted; though they are detected.
> > (It shows "error while mounting")
> >
> > When I try to give the mount point and filesystem entries by entering
> > into properties section it says "cannot obtain lock on media.h-mtab."
> >
> >
> > So, I entered as super user through command line and mounted the
> > drives from there by giving command "mount -t ntfs <device> <mount
> > point>".
> > I also changed the file permissions by giving command "chmod -R 777
> > <drive path>"
> >
> > I am able to access it through command line; but through graphical
> > environment it says that "the contents of the folder cannot be
> > displayed, because you don't have permissions".
> >     
>
> Have you installed ntfs-3g?
>
>   
> > Please let me know how to access my drives through graphical desktop
> > environment, as it's easy to navigate.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > Vivek Sahukar
> >     
>
>   
I have a similar problem until i get my self rights to use HD in 
etc/fstab this line: /dev/sda5       /mnt/external     ntfs-3g    
user,force,locale=en_US.utf8
Try to use "Pico" text editor if you are not familiar vith "Vi" editor. 
This part "/dev/sda5       /mnt/external" doesn't to be the same. Point 
is to put "ntfs-3g" if it is NTFS and "user"-that mean that every user 
can use it.
Backup your /etc/fstab so if something goes wrong you can replace it.
I don't know how to do it GUI but I'm also beginner and I made it.
Open Shell, type SU, write root password and type pico /etc/fstab

Then go to (I'm using KDE):
Systen->KUser-user menager then go to your user name->edit->groups and 
check fuse

I hope that this will help you.

Bye,
Goran Dobosevic
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