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can't mount ntfs partitions in nautilus using ntfs-3g

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Chris

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Dec 9, 2009, 7:30:01 AM12/9/09
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Hi,

I use nautilus to mount my usb ntfs hard drive, but I can't write to it.
If I try to create a directory, I get the message: Error creating
directory: Operation not permitted

In /etc/mtab I find the partition was mounted using ntfs, not ntfs-3g:
/dev/sdb1 /media/disk ntfs rw 0 0

If I manually mount it with the type "ntfs":
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/disk
I also can find the line "/dev/sdb1 /media/disk ntfs rw 0 0".

If I manually mount it with "ntfs-3g", everything works fine.
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/disk
In /etc/mtab I can find:
/dev/sdb1 /media/disk fuseblk rw,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0

Now, I can conclude that nautilus mounts my usb drive using ntfs.
How can I make nautilus mount usb ntfs devices using ntfs-3g.

ps. I recently do an upgrade, more than 100 packages were upgraded.
Since then, ntfs-3g doesn't work fine.


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Kousik Maiti

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Dec 9, 2009, 11:50:01 PM12/9/09
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Not /etc/mtab you should edit /etc/fstab and it should be like this :-

/dev/sdb1 /media/disk ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0 0 0
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Tixy

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Dec 10, 2009, 4:10:02 AM12/10/09
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On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 20:25 +0800, Chris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use nautilus to mount my usb ntfs hard drive, but I can't write to it.
> If I try to create a directory, I get the message: Error creating
> directory: Operation not permitted
<snip>

I think this is bug 558673
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558673).

I took a clue from a bug linked to that (554599) and added:

#link /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs

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Chris

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Dec 10, 2009, 5:50:02 AM12/10/09
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Tixy wrote: 
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 20:25 +0800, Chris wrote:
  
Hi,

I use nautilus to mount my usb ntfs hard drive, but I can't write to it.
If I try to create a directory, I get the message: Error creating 
directory: Operation not permitted
    
<snip>

I think this is bug 558673
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558673).

I took a clue from a bug linked to that (554599) and added:

#link /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs
Thanks. I create a link to mount.ntfs-3g, and it works fine.
I also think the link should be created by the package, not the user.

Tixy

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Dec 10, 2009, 6:00:02 AM12/10/09
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On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 18:41 +0800, Chris wrote:
> Thanks. I create a link to mount.ntfs-3g, and it works fine.
> I also think the link should be created by the package, not the user.

Thats what Debian bug 554599 requests: "Please create
symlink /sbin/mount.ntfs pointing to ntfs-3g".

I personally didn't want to wait for any fix to get into the
repositories, so I applied it by hand. I guess it's possible that
manually adding the link now might cause a problem when installing an
fixed DEB package later...?

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