Problem when opening drives???(partially solved)

[srikar]

I dual boot winXP and linux.I used to get this error " hal-staorage-fixed-mount-all-options refused uid 1000 " wen i opened the drives of windows of ntfs format.

I solved this issue by takin help 4m this source https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Au...ountPartitions

Situation before::
Wen i opened the drives(of ntfs format) i got that error mentioned .

Situation after i issued commands that were given in the source.

root@mYbaTTleMaChiNE:~# wget [url]http://media.ubuntu-nl.org/scripts/diskmounter[/url]
--18:24:54-- [url]http://media.ubuntu-nl.org/scripts/diskmounter[/url]
      => `diskmounter'
Resolving media.ubuntu-nl.org... 81.171.100.21
Connecting to media.ubuntu-nl.org|81.171.100.21|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4,864 (4.8K) [text/plain]

100%[====================================>] 4,864     25.45K/s

18:25:05 (25.35 KB/s) - `diskmounter' saved [4864/4864]

root@mYbaTTleMaChiNE:~# sudo bash diskmounter
By default the disks will be writable only by root and
Srikar (srikar)
Do you want to make the disk writable by all users instead? (y/n)
y
As of Ubuntu 6.04 (Dapper Drake) there is slightly more NTFS writing support
through a very experimental NTFS FUSE module. Using this seems to work but
is NOT recommended. Do you want to use this? [no] y
Not enabling experimental NTFS write support
Ignoring /dev/sda1 - already in /etc/fstab
Added /dev/sda5 as '/media/sda5'
Added /dev/sda6 as '/media/sda6'
NTFS drives will be mounted read-only!*****************************************************(a point to note.)
All windows and mac partitions will now be mounted every time you boot
You do not need to reboot, the partitions are mounted now too
root@mYbaTTleMaChiNE:~#

All the drives got opened.The problem is solved. But as the code said that it is mounted only in read only mode.(i hav mentioned a sequence of stars in the code, look at them)

How to make the mounted drives capable of read and write mode?

[srikar]

Re: Problem when opening drives(partially solved)

Although my problem is partially soved , still waitin 4 ur replies.

[MoonRise]

Re: Problem when opening drives(partially solved)

Have you looked into using NTFS-3g? As far as NTFS partitions goes, this has been a great mount type to use!

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.htmll

[dibl]

Re: Problem when opening drives(partially solved)

Yes, Moonrise has given the correct advice. Install the package ntfs-3g. Also, do KMenu>System Settings>User Management, highlight your user, click "Modify" and then "Secondary Groups" and find "fuse" in the left window and click the arrow to add it to the user in the right window.

Now it should be possible to read and write data to the NTFS drive.

[srikar]

Re: Problem when opening drives(partially solved)

thank u moon rise and dibl.

by adding fuse to secondary groups mean that we are enabling it

[srikar]

Re: Problem when opening drives(partially solved)

i've installed ntfs 3g and added fuse to secondary groups, i did a reboot ,still i cant copy(write). Wat may be the problem??

[marshallbanana]

Re: Problem when opening drives(partially solved)

The way I change permissions on drives is as follows
Alt+F2 (run command)
type
kdesu konqueror
into the box and press enter
This will open up konqueror as the root user. Navigate to the drive you want to change. Right-click>properties>go to the permissions tab.
Set it so that everyone 'can view and modify content'.
Close everything. Done

[MoonRise]

Re: Problem when opening drives(partially solved)

Can you post your fstab file? That should give some clue as to what is going on. Located in this path: /etc/

[srikar]

Re: Problem when opening drives(partially solved)

here is my fstab file:


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda8
UUID=e0c64761-2c82-47b3-9ee0-56c2d50bc8a6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=48580CA5580C93BA /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda7
UUID=e0b83d3c-d360-4ec9-b493-d1ef9d5ec508 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0
#Added by diskmounter utility
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 ntfs ro,user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0
#Added by diskmounter utility
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 ntfs ro,user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0

[MoonRise]

Re: Problem when opening drives(partially solved)

Correct me if I'm wrong guys, but the entries in this fstab is set to read only and therefore why he can't write to them. Also I noticed it does not have ntfs-3g as the driver. You must really use this. It is way more stable than the default ntfs. Below is how a typical setting on the systems I maintain appear.

/dev/sdax  /media/sdax  ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8  0  0

Where the "x" on the Device and Mount Points would indicate the partition.

[srikar]

Re: Problem when opening drives(partially solved)

i've sent the fstab info after i installed the ntfs 3g driver. Ok i guess some thing went wrong in the installation, i would reinstall fuse and ntfs - 3g and tell u guys the situation.

[Snowhog]

Re: Problem when opening drives(partially solved)

Yes. The initial 'problem' occurred with the following question and answer given:

As of Ubuntu 6.04 (Dapper Drake) there is slightly more NTFS writing support
through a very experimental NTFS FUSE module. Using this seems to work but
is NOT recommended. Do you want to use this? [no] y

A little cryptic, but when a 'default' answer is shown 'spelled out', then a typed response to indicate the opposite (yes in this case) must be spelled out completely, otherwise the response is interpetted as accepting the default. That's why the response from the system was:

Not enabling experimental NTFS write support

That said, I agree, installing the ntfs-3g package is a better choice. Once installed, the fstab entry should be checked to ensure that it is written correctly.