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kaola_linux

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From: Bacolod City/Philippines

Registered: 2008-09-23

Posts: 513

How to read and write on ntfs partitions??

Hello everyone, thanks for viewing my post.  I want to know how to read and write on ntfs partitions under sata hd on my arch64 system.  I'm using kde as my de and dolphin does sees it but can't access it anyway.  I didn't had problem so far on mounting usb drives it just automounts maybe because it is a fat partition not a ntfs?  Please I need your help...Thanks in advance:)

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Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: How to read and write on ntfs partitions??

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support

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adamc83

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Registered: 2008-06-01

Posts: 42

Re: How to read and write on ntfs partitions??

Does this help?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support

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kaola_linux

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From: Bacolod City/Philippines

Registered: 2008-09-23

Posts: 513

Re: How to read and write on ntfs partitions??

Thanks for your replies guys, but I've already read this yesterday.  As I was exploring the fstab on my arch I cant seem to find the ntfs partitions hence I can't apply the things said on the wiki.  I've already installed ntfs-3g..

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SiC

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From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

Re: How to read and write on ntfs partitions??

You will most likely need to rework your fstab.  The one from my desktop is shown below. If you want regular users to be able to access the partition, then you will need to change the gid option as I have done. Although you could create a group just for people you want to have access.

You will need to know the device that your windows partition is held on of course. In my case it is my first hard disk, first partition, hence /dev/sda1.

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>

none                           /dev/pts          devpts        defaults                0       0
none                           /dev/shm          tmpfs         defaults                0       0
/dev/cdrom             /media/cdrom      auto        ro,user,noauto,unhide   0       0
/dev/dvd             /media/dvd       auto        ro,user,noauto,unhide   0       0
/dev/mapper/nvidia_fbgfhehd1     /boot         ext2         defaults         0    1
/dev/mapper/nvidia_fbgfhehd2     /         reiserfs     defaults         0     1
/dev/mapper/nvidia_fbgfhehd3     /var         reiserfs     defaults         0     1
/dev/mapper/nvidia_fbgfhehd5     /opt         reiserfs     defaults         0     1
/dev/mapper/nvidia_fbgfhehd6     swap         swap         defaults         0     0
/dev/mapper/nvidia_fbgfhehd7     /home         reiserfs     defaults         0     1
/dev/sdd1                 /mnt/andromeda     vfat         defaults         0     0
/dev/sda1                 /mnt/windows     ntfs-3g     defaults,user,gid=users 0     0

My XP partition is set to mount automatically, as I regularly interchange documents between the OS's.

Hope that helps.