Re: can't mount ntfs partitions in nautilus using ntfs-3g

2009-12-10 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 20:25 +0800, Chris wrote: Hi, I use nautilus to mount my usb ntfs hard drive, but I can't write to it. If I try to create a directory, I get the message: Error creating directory: Operation not permitted snip I think this is bug 558673

Re: can't mount ntfs partitions in nautilus using ntfs-3g

2009-12-10 Thread Chris
Tixy wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 20:25 +0800, Chris wrote: Hi, I use nautilus to mount my usb ntfs hard drive, but I can't write to it. If I try to create a directory, I get the message: Error creating directory: Operation not permitted snip I think this is bug 558673

Re: can't mount ntfs partitions in nautilus using ntfs-3g

2009-12-10 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 18:41 +0800, Chris wrote: Thanks. I create a link to mount.ntfs-3g, and it works fine. I also think the link should be created by the package, not the user. Thats what Debian bug 554599 requests: Please create symlink /sbin/mount.ntfs pointing to ntfs-3g. I personally

can't mount ntfs partitions in nautilus using ntfs-3g

2009-12-09 Thread Chris
Hi, I use nautilus to mount my usb ntfs hard drive, but I can't write to it. If I try to create a directory, I get the message: Error creating directory: Operation not permitted In /etc/mtab I find the partition was mounted using ntfs, not ntfs-3g: /dev/sdb1 /media/disk ntfs rw 0 0 If I

Re: can't mount ntfs partitions in nautilus using ntfs-3g

2009-12-09 Thread Kousik Maiti
Not /etc/mtab you should edit /etc/fstab and it should be like this :- /dev/sdb1 /media/disk ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0 0 0 On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Chris bbsh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I use nautilus to mount my usb ntfs hard drive, but I can't write to it. If I try to create a