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Hello. I've just installed Arch on my new laptop, with Win7 pre-installed too. When I want to access a NTFS partition with gnome 'places' menu, it asks me for the root password, and then I can't write/modify any file.
Can anyone help me to fix it ? I'm not sure this is really a gnome related problem, so I do't know what kind of info I can provide to help. I use GDM as a daemon to log in...
here is my fdisk -l if it can help :
$ sudo fdisk -l
Password:
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb2a35e47
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 976769023 488383488 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6da65ae0
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 285169663 142583808 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 285169664 285560831 195584 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 285562878 976771071 345604097 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 285562880 303138815 8787968 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 303140864 342200319 19529728 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 342202368 976771071 317284352 83 Linux
sda1 and sdb1 are obviously the two partitions I want to access as normal user. These are both internal drives.
Thanks !
Last edited by akalore (2011-04-01 01:29:44)
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To do this properly you need to add entries in to fstab
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab
and then set up ntfs-3g
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support
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Hm whatever option I write in fstab i get this error message :
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE
library. Either mount the volume as root, or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated
FUSE support and make it setuid root. Please see more information at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged
here are the 2 lines i have added :
/dev/sdb1 /media/DATA ntfs-3g users,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/WIN ntfs-3g users,noauto 0 0
I looked in repos for a FUSE integrated version of ntfs-3g with no success
Last edited by akalore (2011-03-31 02:51:33)
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Thanks ! it works.
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