error accessing NTFS partition

[NoOp]

On 03/28/2008 08:28 AM, Wade Smart wrote:
> 03282008 1015 GMT-6
> 
> A friend of mine has a issue with access a ntfs partition.
> It was originally a duel boot machine with three partitions.
> 1 was ntfs for windows
> 1 was ntfs data for windows
> 1 was for ubuntu.
> 
> He deleted the windows partition but still have many GB of data in the ntfs 
> partition.
> 
> This is the fstab output:
> fstab output
> 
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> 
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> # Entry for /dev/hda1 :
> UUID=163cc188-1844-4b1c-9df1-0fc25fea05b0 / ext3
> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> # Entry for /dev/hda5 :
> UUID=f8db8b78-efae-448c-bf3e-3bda5b157c88 none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
> /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0

There is nothing there to indicate that there is an ntfs drive or partition.

This is what an ntfs entry would look like:

# /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1  /media/windows  ntfs iocharset=utf8,umask=000    0  0
/dev/sdb2  /media/sdb2     ntfs  defaults                   0  0

Perhaps the easiest for him would be to install a gui to modify the fstab:

sudo apt-get install pysdm

Then System|Administration|Storeage Device Manager

Then click on the arrow at sda or sdb whichever is the ntfs drive and
follow the defaults. Afterwards you should be able to use a terminal to:

sudo mount -a

and see the drive(s) appear on the desktop.

It would also be helpful if you can get him to provide the output (from
the terminal) of:

sudo fdisk -l



> 
> 
> He followed several posts on the ubuntu forums for ntsf-3g and ntfsfix command. 
> Neither worked - or worked for long.
> 
> He had access to the ntfs partition but when he tried to create a new folder he 
> received the error "Unsupported Operation".  Apparently at some point he got it 
> working again but now is getting the same error and this new one - "Not enough 
> space to extend mft data" though he does still have 45gb of drive space left on 
> that partition.
> 
> He is using Gutsy.
> 
> He also said that he has a external drive that is usb and it is also ntfs and 
> that he can access it.
> 
> Wade
>