[Solved] Very quick question, Accessing NTFS windows drive

Lobstertorch · 2009-11-04 02:38:43

So I have Windows in my first harddrive (Bigger HD hold my music, games etc.)

And Arch is installed to the second smaller HD, How would I make it so that the NTFS windows HD would be automounted and I have the ability to view all my files?

Last edited by Lobstertorch (2009-11-04 03:03:44)

perbh · 2009-11-04 02:46:28

I presume your windows disk has two partitions, /dev/sda1 which is a 'recover' partition (usually 8-15 gigs) and /dev/sda2 which is windows/ntfs proper.
If this is true, just do the following in your /etc/fstab

/dev/sda2  /win  ntfs-3g  defaults,uid=000,gid=000,noatime,locale=en_US.utf8  0 0

Obviously (I hope) your /win directory (or whatever you want to call it) must exist (mkdir /win; chmod a+rwx /win)
However, this is when the fun begins with all the filenames with embedded spaces in windows - be ready for a bumpy ride ...

Last edited by perbh (2009-11-04 02:49:10)

Lobstertorch · 2009-11-04 02:48:18

Eh... I think I understand what you're saying...

Mind explaining the chmod part?

perbh · 2009-11-04 02:52:33

Well, you have to make sure that all users have both read and write access to the ntfs ... if the mount-point has only 'drwxr xr x' (which is the default values for using mkdir as root), only root will have write access :-(

Lobstertorch · 2009-11-04 02:55:19

;_; that sucks. alright... I'm gonna give this a whirl. I'm assuming i'd

sudo mkdir /win
chmod a+rwx /win

then add that above line to my /etc/fstab?

Will I need a reboot?

And what about the embedded spaces stuff? I plan on accesessing these files through a filemanager.

Thanks for your patience, and I spaced this post weird like what the hell?

EDIT: I did it :3. Thank you very much. At first when you posted I was kinda like uh oh. But I got it now. Always learning new things . Thanks.

Last edited by Lobstertorch (2009-11-04 03:03:30)

perbh · 2009-11-04 03:14:24

Most filemanagers can handle embedded spaces.
It is if you ever use the command line that your ride will be bumpy ... or if you write shell-scripts.
I have threatened my family with a fate worse than death if they use embedded spaces in their filenames - in other words, I refuse to tidy up their mess when their 'other OS' crumbles and they need help and they have used spaces ... *lol*

No need to reboot, but you might have to manually mount it (sudo mount /win) the first time after you have changed /etc/fstab ... after that, it will be automagically mounted upon each new boot :-)

Lobstertorch · 2009-11-04 03:35:01

Okay, I know I marked my thread as solved... but while you're here, I'm running steam, there was an update and now when I run Steam.exe the update fails which I'm assuming is because I don't have write access. I suppose I could boot into windows and patch, but that's no fun. Any way to do this?

perbh · 2009-11-04 03:52:47

?? You're running 'steam.exe'? from linux?
I don't know what 'steam' is - but it sure as hell looks like a windows executable!

Just check if you have write access - something like:

touch /win/zz; rm /win/zz

If this doesn't work .. hmmm, you _may_ have to add 'umask=000' as well as uid=000 and gid=000 ...

[edit]
nope - I've just checked it - I can write to it as a 'normal' user without the umask=000
[/edit]

Last edited by perbh (2009-11-04 03:57:41)

Lobstertorch · 2009-11-04 03:57:10

Oh sorry hah, I forget that not everyone is a gamer... Steam is a game launching / IM / game purchasing application. Digital distribution and all that. But yeah, wait isn't rm like.... delete? I'm assuming touch creates a folder to remove or something?

EDIT: Yeah I had it correct. That made the folder AND deleted it, no problems there no Sudo needed or anything. Hm... is there something I should change for Wine permissions or something?

Last edited by Lobstertorch (2009-11-04 03:58:45)

perbh · 2009-11-04 04:01:19

nope - 'touch' just makes a zero-size file
and yes 'rm' is delete (a file), 'rmdir' to delete a (empty) directory/folder.
However - 'touch' will tell you whether or not you have write-access to the ntfs-drive.

Hmmm - you just maybe should have a li'l look at the most common commands - makes life somewhat easier ...

perbh · 2009-11-04 04:04:39

I don't use 'wine' - so you maybe should open another thread for that ... or (which I believe might be appreciated) do some searching in the forum for 'wine' - I know there has been a lot of posts about it. Alternatively - look up 'wine' in the excellent wiki.

We dont mind helping people - but we do appreciate a little bit of research first ...

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