On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 12:56 +0530, Mayur Pawar wrote:

Hi,

I have a dual boot machine..running Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04..Having trouble in mounting a 20 GB NTFS partition in Ubuntu 8.04. I have other partitions which are Fat32 partitions and easily mounting. Tried googling the issue and also used NTFS-config tool..It gave me an error saying Windows was not shut down cleanly..and asked me to remove any drives connected..after using ntfs-config i changed the mount point name..it again gave me the same error..and then said i didnt have privileges to mount the partition..please help me with the same..i do not intend to format the partition since i am having a lot of data here..

sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

Happy hacking. Krishnakant.

-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in [mailto:linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in] On Behalf Of Rony Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:00 PM To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need help for mounting NTFS partition in Ubuntu 8.04

Mayur Pawar wrote:

Hi,

I have a dual boot machine..running Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04..Having trouble in mounting a 20 GB NTFS partition in Ubuntu 8.04. I have other partitions which are Fat32 partitions and easily mounting. Tried googling the issue and also used NTFS-config tool..It gave me an error saying

Windows

was not shut down cleanly..and asked me to remove any drives connected..after using ntfs-config i changed the mount point name..it

again

gave me the same error..and then said i didnt have privileges to mount the partition..please help me with the same..i do not intend to format the partition since i am having a lot of data here..

First ensure that your NTFS partition is clean. In XP, go to 'My Computer' and right click on that partition, select 'Properties'. In that go to the 'Tools' tab and select the first button to fix drive errors. In the window that pops up, select both the check boxes and start the scan. In case your system returns a message that you cannot do it now ( For drives that are in use, like C:\ ) but it can be done during the next boot, select the 'Yes' button. After all processes are complete, boot into Ubuntu and type 'sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g' in your GUI terminal.

Now for some home work, look up google for the exact options to use when mounting an NTFS partition using ntfs-3g as your fs type (mount -t ntfs-3g ....). Its not so complicated.