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NTFS drives automount read and write.

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 6:11 pm
by mandog
Using mate desktop how do I get my ntfs drives to mount read/write, at present they mount on start up In Caja and in Nautilus file managers, file permissions inform me they are read/write for user but this is incorrect, trash and delete do not work either. The only information I seem to get with Google is for FreeBSD 6 so I don't think it will apply.
Please don't complain this took over 1 hour to write.

Re: NTFS drives automount read and write.

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:31 am
by adripillo12
mandog wrote:Using mate desktop how do I get my ntfs drives to mount read/write, at present they mount on start up In Caja and in Nautilus file managers, file permissions inform me they are read/write for user but this is incorrect, trash and delete do not work either. The only information I seem to get with Google is for FreeBSD 6 so I don't think it will apply.
Please don't complain this took over 1 hour to write.

Well done writing, you did a nice job.

about mounting NTFS for read and write try to read about NTFS-3g

Re: NTFS drives automount read and write.

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:35 am
by adripillo12
adripillo12 wrote:
mandog wrote:Using mate desktop how do I get my ntfs drives to mount read/write, at present they mount on start up In Caja and in Nautilus file managers, file permissions inform me they are read/write for user but this is incorrect, trash and delete do not work either. The only information I seem to get with Google is for FreeBSD 6 so I don't think it will apply.
Please don't complain this took over 1 hour to write.

Well done writing, you did a nice job.

about mounting NTFS for read and write try to read about NTFS-3g
Here, more easy for you, I let you a link.

http://virtuallyhyper.com/2012/10/mount ... freebsd-9/

Re: NTFS drives automount read and write.

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:48 pm
by mandog
Thank you for the link I had already tried that and it did not work, I have got NTFS-3g installed and enabled in /etc/rc.conf it makes no difference permissions still say user read/right. I think its a permission problem possibly Mate policy-kit, I am not sure as this is not Linux.

Re: NTFS drives automount read and write.

Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 8:44 am
by adripillo12
mandog wrote:Thank you for the link I had already tried that and it did not work, I have got NTFS-3g installed and enabled in /etc/rc.conf it makes no difference permissions still say user read/right. I think its a permission problem possibly Mate policy-kit, I am not sure as this is not Linux.
You welcome. You can try to Umount the Disk and then do:

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# ntfs-3g /dev/ad4s1 /mnt/ntfs
Please, take note that ada4s1 must be changed by your Disk slice. That should work really.
Also you can try

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mount -t ntfs -o -u=(youruser),-g=(yourgroup) /dev/(ur disk) /mnt/ntfs

Re: NTFS drives automount read and write.

Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 12:56 pm
by ericbsd
Mandog it can be policy-Kit.

Re: NTFS drives automount read and write.

Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:55 pm
by mandog
Yes I think it could be policy-Kit, I do not have a clue how it works in GhostBSD.
I normally use arch-Linux and the wiki is second to none, using BSD is a different ball game, I can not understand a lot of it at this moment in time.

Re: NTFS drives automount read and write.

Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 8:57 pm
by ericbsd
Policy-kit work that same way on BSD and Linux.

Re: NTFS drives automount read and write.

Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 8:48 pm
by mandog
I have made some headway at last I disabled gvfs, then I was able to manually mount my windows drives ntfs-3g read/write but lost the trash can.
I then re enabled gvfs, looked at /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor disabled this file 20-storage-methods.fdi, just changed the name.
now the drives don't auto mount through hal, now I can manually mount the ntfs drives, read/write create delete files folders
Next to try to enter them in fstab, so they are auto-mounted at start up.

Re: NTFS drives automount read and write.

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 3:56 pm
by adripillo12
mandog wrote:I have made some headway at last I disabled gvfs, then I was able to manually mount my windows drives ntfs-3g read/write but lost the trash can.
I then re enabled gvfs, looked at /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor disabled this file 20-storage-methods.fdi, just changed the name.
now the drives don't auto mount through hal, now I can manually mount the ntfs drives, read/write create delete files folders
Next to try to enter them in fstab, so they are auto-mounted at start up.
to auto-mount at start up you need to add to /etc/fstab the next:

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/dev/(your disk) /mnt/(your folder) ntfs-3g rw,late 0 0