NTFS Write

solarwind · 2008-05-18 03:07:57

Hey all,
I am dual booting Arch Linux and Windows XP on my computer. I need to copy over some files from my Arch Linux partitions to my NTFS partitions. I want to do it from Linux. How do I write to my NTFS partitions using Arch Linux? Do I mount it a special way? Do I need to download anything extra?

Ashren · 2008-05-18 03:14:40

Do a pacman -S ntfs-3g. Mount your ntfs partition (as root) with ntfs-3g /dev/sd* /mnt/*. You can also use ntfs-3g in your fstab instead of ntfs.

solarwind · 2008-05-18 03:16:07

Ashren wrote:

Do a pacman -S ntfs-3g. Mount your ntfs partition (as root) with ntfs-3g /dev/sd* /mnt/*. You can also use ntfs-3g in your fstab instead of ntfs.

Thanks a lot! I should have searched before posting. I found this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support

Perfect!

solarwind · 2008-05-18 03:26:23

Hmmm... Odd...

This is my /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1     /mnt/sda1    ntfs-3g      users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,locale=en_US.utf8  0 0
/dev/sda2     /mnt/sda2     ntfs-3g      users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,locale=en_US.utf8  0 0

However, I still have to specify -t ntfs-3g when I manually mount for the ntfs-3g to take effect. Is this normal?

iBertus · 2008-05-18 03:28:27

You can just use the 'ntfs-3g' command to mount the volumes. I believe it's pretty much just 'mount' with the -t already specified.

So, 'ntfs-3g /dev/sdf1 /mnt/windows', for example.

solarwind · 2008-05-18 03:30:13

iBertus wrote:

You can just use the 'ntfs-3g' command to mount the volumes. I believe it's pretty much just 'mount' with the -t already specified.
So, 'ntfs-3g /dev/sdf1 /mnt/windows', for example.

Thanks!

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#1 2008-05-18 03:07:57

NTFS Write

#2 2008-05-18 03:14:40

Re: NTFS Write

#3 2008-05-18 03:16:07

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#4 2008-05-18 03:26:23

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#5 2008-05-18 03:28:27

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