[SOLVED] Truecrypt mounting ntfs and proper file/folder encoding

king.flasher.dave · 2008-11-27 02:56:08

Hey!

I've switched to arch just two days ago. So please be kind with the n00b

I have 2 external hdds that are fully encrypted with truecrypt and feature ntfs partitions (i use them both with windows and arch now).
I followed the wiki (which is very informative btw) for installing truecrypt (and it all went fine). I can mount my drives BUT:

- I have no permissions on them (write & create), though i worked my way through the WHOLE wiki (so I also included all the steps to let truecrypt be run by normal users, etc. blah blah)

- nautilus leaves out a lot of files and folders because of their special signs like äöü etc (also I can't open those files or files within a folder that contain these signs in their names)
I don't only have this problem on my truecrypt drives... so this is kinda a second problem I guess...
my encoding in rc.conf is (LOCALE="en_US.utf8")

- truecrypt won't run as a module during boot after adding it to rc.conf MODULE section ("module not found")

It's really ugly... I would like to use my files again

Can someone please help me sort this out? I tried all the stuff posted in the wiki and searched the forum, but I couldn't find problems with my criteria...

Last edited by king.flasher.dave (2009-10-30 16:20:03)

schuay · 2008-11-27 08:04:59

about your external hds, have you tried mounting them with the following options:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 mnt/ -o uid=1000,fmask=0113,gid=100,users

xstaticxgpx · 2008-11-27 19:11:08

I had this issue too - how I resolved it was by mounting it with:

truecrypt --fs-options=rw,noatime,umask=000 --filesystem=ntfs-3g /dev/***

king.flasher.dave · 2008-12-01 16:58:22

okay now!
sorry, it took so long to reply, been busy all weekend.

thanks to xstaticxgpx, i can write on these partitions now.

but the system still leaves out folders and files that contain special characters like µ ü ä ö etc.

Do you guys know how i can change that?

byte · 2008-12-01 17:25:50

I don't know about fuse/ntfs-3g but the in-kernel ntfs supports mount options like utf8, see 'man mount'.

king.flasher.dave · 2008-12-01 18:40:41

uh lol... shame on me....

it was just a problem with the LOCALE setting. I followed this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Configuring_locales
I activated:

en_US.UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1

and now it's working!

Thanks to everyone who helped!

@xstaticxgpx: have you found a way to do the exact same thing with the Truecrypt GUI? Maybe i'm just using the wrong commands, but I can't use yours from above in the "mount options" stuff in the GUI...
it's also a bit annoying to mount every single harddrive by terminal, but at least it WORKS! thanks again!

king.flasher.dave · 2009-10-30 16:18:57

I just symlinked the kernel's ntfs and the ntfs-3g drivers.
This way Truecrypt is able to use ntfs-3g on normal mount through the system and one is not required to use the terminal.

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#1 2008-11-27 02:56:08

[SOLVED] Truecrypt mounting ntfs and proper file/folder encoding

#2 2008-11-27 08:04:59

Re: [SOLVED] Truecrypt mounting ntfs and proper file/folder encoding

#3 2008-11-27 19:11:08

Re: [SOLVED] Truecrypt mounting ntfs and proper file/folder encoding

#4 2008-12-01 16:58:22

Re: [SOLVED] Truecrypt mounting ntfs and proper file/folder encoding

#5 2008-12-01 17:25:50

Re: [SOLVED] Truecrypt mounting ntfs and proper file/folder encoding

#6 2008-12-01 18:40:41

Re: [SOLVED] Truecrypt mounting ntfs and proper file/folder encoding

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Re: [SOLVED] Truecrypt mounting ntfs and proper file/folder encoding

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