fstab R/W on an NTFS partition, and a FAT Partition - HELP!

ilikenwf · 2008-06-30 22:34:46

At boot, despite my fstab options, I'm still not mounting my windoze and my shared vfat partitions as read/write. They show up in mount as being that way, but no matter what, I can't write to them...it's making me mad, and I have a migrane. I'm not a n00b, but this seemed the best place to post...

output of mount:

/dev/sda2 on /mnt/windows type ntfs (rw,uid=1000,gid=100,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sda3 on /mnt/storage type ntfs (rw,uid=1000,gid=100,iocharset=utf8)

my fstab:

/dev/sda2             /mnt/windows auto defaults,uid=1000,gid=100,iocharset=utf8   0      0
/dev/sda3             /mnt/storage auto defaults,uid=1000,gid=100,iocharset=utf8   0      0

Help, please!

MilosC · 2008-07-01 00:11:39

You are using wrong filesystem type. NTFS-3G supports writing on NTFS partitions, and here are the instruction for installing it and configuring write access: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support.

ilikenwf · 2008-07-01 14:33:11

Actually the top one is NTFS...the other is VFAT, and for some reason is still being mounted read only. Sorry, forgot to mention that.

ilikenwf · 2008-07-01 14:53:01

Nevermind...I'm an idiot, and the wiki helped. I thought it was vfat, but both are NTFS. I should've known this anyway...I already had ntfs-3g installed...Move along...move along...

aaaaarch · 2008-07-01 15:01:44

I wonder whether it is safe to write on NTFS with ntfs-3g.
Sometimes i dare not write on disk with important data like this.

ilikenwf · 2008-07-01 18:10:22

The worst that can happen is the messing up of the superblock, methinks...even so, if it gets wiped or something, outside of using bcwipe it's always easy to recover the files.

.:B:. · 2008-07-02 16:49:20

You need to pass the umask= option to mount VFAT with the permissions you wish.

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#1 2008-06-30 22:34:46

fstab R/W on an NTFS partition, and a FAT Partition - HELP!

#2 2008-07-01 00:11:39

Re: fstab R/W on an NTFS partition, and a FAT Partition - HELP!

#3 2008-07-01 14:33:11

Re: fstab R/W on an NTFS partition, and a FAT Partition - HELP!

#4 2008-07-01 14:53:01

Re: fstab R/W on an NTFS partition, and a FAT Partition - HELP!

#5 2008-07-01 15:01:44

Re: fstab R/W on an NTFS partition, and a FAT Partition - HELP!

#6 2008-07-01 18:10:22

Re: fstab R/W on an NTFS partition, and a FAT Partition - HELP!

#7 2008-07-02 16:49:20

Re: fstab R/W on an NTFS partition, and a FAT Partition - HELP!

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