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jun

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Registered: 2009-02-27

Posts: 19

Can't write to internal or external mounted NTFS drives

I modified policykit.conf to allow hal to mount NTFS drives, but I only have read access to my files on internal and external NTFS volumes.

I am a member of group 'storage.' Here's my /etc/fstab:
/dev/sde1 /media/NTFS1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sde3 /media/NFTS2 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Whenever I try to modify a file in Dolphin I'm greeted with an 'Access denied' message box. I'd greatly appreciate any help in determining why. Thanks.

Jun

ChoK

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From: France

Registered: 2008-10-01

Posts: 346

Re: Can't write to internal or external mounted NTFS drives

edit your fstab like this

/dev/sde1 /media/NTFS1 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/sde3 /media/NFTS2 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0000 0 0

ntfs doesn't store permissions, if you mount it with default options only root can write on it, check umask with "man mount" if you want to set different umask.

Edit: hal and policykit doesn't use fstab, they are used for devices not found in fstab actually (hotplugging)

Last edited by ChoK (2009-03-29 23:42:16)

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my0pic

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 206

Re: Can't write to internal or external mounted NTFS drives

You need to have a look at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support.

bwh1969

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Registered: 2008-01-05

Posts: 151

Re: Can't write to internal or external mounted NTFS drives

If you still can't get it to work, check this out

I could not get NTFS to mount using the auto mounter even after adding the "policies" mentioned in

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#NTFS
--> I did ALL of the HAL tricks:
NTFS
Hal 0.5.11-7 (Follow the link and did that)
ntfs-3g linking

automounter still did not work.

I also tried some things in http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support (listed in prior post) but I must have made some big error because I could not even mount ntfs using the terminal as root after doing some of these things so I reinstalled ntfs-3g using pacman and IT WORKED.

I am thinking that after reinstalling ntfs-3g when those "policies" were put into place from the HAL wiki, the ntfs-3g driver configured itself correctly with use for hal or vice versa. 

This has worked twice for me now that I think of it.  Configure hal, then reinstall the ntfs-3g driver.  Don't know why...

Last edited by bwh1969 (2009-04-06 02:35:52)