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clos

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Registered: 2007-03-18

Posts: 22

Ntfs-3g help

Having some problems with ntfs-3g.  Installed it with pacman -S ntfs-3g, and put
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,unmask=0002,nls=utf8 in fstab.  I then go into storage media and see the hard drive (sda1) but when I try to mount it I get this error message: Feature only available with HAL

But if I try to mount the HD through the terminal with mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows -o locale=hu_HU.utf8 it shows up fine in /mnt/windows.

Also I can't find my other HD which is FAT32 formatted, it doesn't show up in storage media, but I thought it would because Linux should be able to see FAT32 drives right?

Any help would be great

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: Ntfs-3g help

Did you check the wiki out?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support

clos

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Registered: 2007-03-18

Posts: 22

Re: Ntfs-3g help

Yeah I did that, but I still get an error message "Feature only available through HAL" when I try to look at the drives in "Media".  But if I try to mount them through the terminal I can find them in /mnt/media and /mnt/windows.  So I made a script and put it in the .kde/Autostart folder in hopes that it would do it, but so far it hasn't:

#!/bin/sh
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/media
mount /mnt/windows

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: Ntfs-3g help

Do you have hal and dbus installed and running?

From KDE wiki

Please add 'dbus' 'hal' to rc.conf daemon's list
for full media:/ kioslave experience.

Last edited by somairotevoli (2007-03-18 18:21:31)

clos

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Registered: 2007-03-18

Posts: 22

Re: Ntfs-3g help

Alright, I added dbus and hal to my deamons, and now the NTFS partion loads successfully.  But my FAT 32 partition still doesn't mount with this command in the fstab - /dev/sdb1 /mnt/media vfat defaults,unmask=000 0 0

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,329

Re: Ntfs-3g help

Quote: "unmask=000" - shouldn't it be "umask=000"?

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Ntfs-3g help

Change

/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,unmask=0002,nls=utf8

To:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g ro,unmask=0002,nls=utf8

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