laptop, Ubuntu mounting NTFS

blueswitch · Dec 25, 2006

ok so I have ubuntu setup on my laptop, but for some reason the windows partition doesn;t show up. This is a laptop with windows and ubuntu on same HDD. I know windows is on hda1 and I tried mount /dev/hda1 with no luck. Running edgy. before I had no problems right from install but windows sat on a seperate HDD not just partition.

dicecca112 · Dec 25, 2006

this is the new guide, they rewrote because the old one I used to use, was for version 5.10. Haven't tried it myself but a lot of people have and said it works http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=675

blueswitch · Dec 25, 2006

that looks interesting, but before I mess with using beta drivers to write to NTFS I kinda just want to get Ubuntu to read from it. my NTFS is not in fstab....so thats the problem but never added a drive before. Here is my disk -L output:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 8713 69987141 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 8969 9733 6144862+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 8714 8968 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

I tried following a guide where it had me mkdir /media/windows to do it....but then the windows folder is set to root permission.

Misfit138 · Dec 25, 2006

blueswitch said:
that looks interesting, but before I mess with using beta drivers to write to NTFS I kinda just want to get Ubuntu to read from it. my NTFS is not in fstab....so thats the problem but never added a drive before. Here is my disk -L output:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 8713 69987141 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 8969 9733 6144862+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 8714 8968 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

I tried following a guide where it had me mkdir /media/windows to do it....but then the windows folder is set to root permission.

If you are worried about writing to theNTFS partition, then mount it as read only.
If you mount the filesystem type as ntfs-3g (NOT ntfs) the permissions should be correct.
dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g ro,user 0 0
Or something similar, should work in your fstab. Make sure you install ntfs-3g first

blueswitch · Dec 25, 2006

well ntfs-3g worked....rebooted and it mounted no problem...don't know why it didn't work out of box...my desktop with 2 HDD's worked no problem with dapper

dicecca112 · Dec 25, 2006

because its never worked out of the box. No need. If the user needs it, it will do it itself, what do you think this is windows?

blueswitch · Dec 26, 2006

dicecca112 said:
because its never worked out of the box. No need. If the user needs it, it will do it itself, what do you think this is windows?

no honestly when I put dapper on my desktop it saw the ntfs drive without modding fstab....it was an easy fix...I just was wondering why my laptop didn't do that. Oh well, it woks I can access my music, movies etc..on the windows partition all is right with the world. :beer:

dicecca112 · Dec 26, 2006

it doesn't have automount built in. So installed internal hdds won't be read on installation, but externals are viewed like flash drives and usb drives are will be automount.

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