[sf-lug] Fwd: Drive Access issues

[Tom Haddon]

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 11:27 -0400, Blake Haggerty wrote:
> SO I installed the NTFS-3g driver and still nothing. It continues to
> tell me that this is a read only drive. I logged in as Root and tried
> to  change the permissions on it but it won't let me... Anybody have
> anymore Mousey Clicky ways to get this fixed?? 

Try installing "ntfs-config":

$ aptitude show ntfs-config
Package: ntfs-config
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 0.5.5-0ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 442k
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.13.1), libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libcairo2 (>=
1.3.14), libdbus-1-3 (>= 0.94), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libglade2-0
(>= 1:2.5.1),
         libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.9), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.3),
libhal-storage1, libhal1 (>= 0.5), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.15.6), libx11-6,
libxcursor1 (> 1.1.2), libxext6,
         libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxml2 (>=
2.6.27), libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxrender1, ntfs-3g
Description: Enable/disable write support for any NTFS devices
 This program allow you to easily configure all of your NTFS devices to
allow write support via a friendly gui. For that use, it will configure
them to use the open
 source ntfs-3g driver. You'll also be able to easily disable this
feature. 
 
 Homepage : http://givre.cabspace.com/ntfs-config 
 
 Homepage of ntfs-3g : http://www.ntfs-3g.org


Should then show up in the system tools menu. I'm just going from docs -
haven't tried it myself.

Thanks, Tom


>  
> Best Regards, 
>  
> Blake M. Haggerty
> Technical Recruiter
> Sapphire Technologies
> Phone #415-788-8488
> Fax #415-788-2592
> 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From:Tom Haddon tom at greenleaftech.net 
> To: "Rick Moen" ;
> Cc: "sf-lug at linuxmafia.com" ;
> Sent: Jun 29, 2007 12:19:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] Fwd: Drive Access issues
> 
> On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:08 -0700, Rick Moen wrote: 
> > Quoting John Lowry (johnlowry at gmail.com): 
> > 
> > > Sorry about that, accidentally replied off list 
> > > If the windows drive is formated NTFS you will have to do some
> futzing with 
> > > it. 
> > 
> > Right. Forgot that almost all 'Doze users these days are doing
> NTFS. 
> > For Blake's benefit: The NTFS filesystem (partition) format is kept
> as 
> > a closely held secret by Microsoft Corporation, and has had to be 
> > painfully and carefully reverse-engineered by Linux coders with
> zero 
> > help. There is very recent software that safely mounts NTFS with
> full 
> > r/w access, but it's not yet included in most Linux distros. The
> links 
> > John provided will tell more. 
> 
> It is in the latest version of Ubuntu (7.04), although I'd have to
> refer 
> to docs to how to actually get it working :) : 
> 
> $ aptitude show ntfs-3g 
> Package: ntfs-3g 
> New: yes 
> State: not installed 
> Version: 1:1.328-1 
> Priority: optional 
> Section: universe/otherosfs 
> Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers 
> Uncompressed Size: 90.1k 
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libfuse2 (>= 2.6), libntfs-3g0 (>= 
> 1.0) 
> PreDepends: fuse-utils 
> Description: read-write NTFS driver for FUSE 
> The ntfs-3g driver is an open source, GPL licensed, third generation 
> Linux NTFS driver for 32-bit, little-endian architectures which was 
> implemented by the 
> Linux-NTFS project. It provides full read-write access to NTFS, 
> excluding access to encrypted files, writing compressed files,
> changing 
> file ownership, 
> access right. 
> 
> Technically it's based on and a major improvement to the third 
> generation Linux NTFS driver, ntfsmount. The improvements includes 
> functionality, quality 
> and performance enhancements. 
> 
> ntfs-3g is based on FUSE (userspace filesystem framework for Linux), 
> thus you will have to prepare fuse kernel module to be able to use
> it. 
> 
> Homepage: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ 
> 
> 
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