Help with ntfs - permissions? [SOLVED - work around]

[edwardr]

Thanks in advance for any help!

I like to share my data directories between my Mint and Windows installations, so I have the data directories on an ntfs partition. It used to work great, I could rip my CD's to my Music folder, use custom commands in Gthumb to organize and move pictures in my Pictures folder etc. But for a while now this has been broken. For example, in Asunder, I set the preferences to save the ripped music to the ntfs partition, but when I start ripping it saves the music instead to my home folder. It's like the program cannot write to the ntfs partition. This used to work fine, and I feel like some upgrade somewhere along the way broke it. I have had this issue with Mint 9 xfce and Mint 14 xfce.

My ntfs partition is mounted at startup using an entry in fstab. I have tried the following entries in fstab (and probably some other variants too), but no luck:
/dev/sda3 /media/Windows ntfs defaults,umask=007,uid=1000,gid=46 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/Windows ntfs defaults,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=46 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/Windows ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

Thanks again!

Ed

[altair4]

What's not clear from your post is whether you yourself cannot write to /media/Windows ( through Thunar for example ) or just this Asunder application you speak of cannot write to the partition.

You might want to post the output of the following commands so folks here can see how you are set up:

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cat /etc/fstab

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sudo blkid -c /dev/null

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mount

[Habitual]

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rw,uid=1000,gid=100,dmask=022,fmask=133 0 0

options will give you the Linux permissions of
755 on directories and 644 on files.

gid=100 may be uid=1000 for you.

[edwardr]

I did a little bit of checking - I can use Thunar to copy files to the ntfs partition and delete files from it also. I also tried deleting an image from within Here are the outputs:

from cat /etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=6377a6bb-e45d-42c4-adcf-8953221c6cd3 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=606c1eed-c829-4be6-b691-7b44e1cbe973 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/Windows ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

from sudo blkid -c /dev/null:
/dev/sda1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="DellUtility" UUID="3030-3030" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="RECOVERY" UUID="942E6C132E6BED24" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="OS" UUID="AC4C1B954C1B5982" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="606c1eed-c829-4be6-b691-7b44e1cbe973" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda6: UUID="6377a6bb-e45d-42c4-adcf-8953221c6cd3" TYPE="ext4"

from mount:
/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
/dev/sda3 on /media/Windows type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/edward/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=edward)


thanks

[edwardr]

Habitual, I tried the edit you recommended to my fstab, but Asunder still ended up saving the file to my home folder. Then I tried running it using "sudo asunder", chose teh directory in the ntfs partition, and it still did not save the file there, instead saving it to the Root home..

[altair4]

Although I would have set the line in fstab differently there is nothing wrong with the line you already had:

/dev/sda3 /media/Windows ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

And it seems to have mounted it correctly since the output of "mount" yields this:

/dev/sda3 on /media/Windows type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)

And you can in fact access the partition yourself:

I can use Thunar to copy files to the ntfs partition and delete files from it also

To me the culprit seems to be Asunder especially since it decides on it's own to save it in a location of it's choosing not yours. I don't know what to tell you. I can give you what I think the line should look like but I don't think it would solve this particular issue.

When asunder saves this file to your home directory can you use Thunar to copy it to /media/Windows or does it fail there as well?

[jahid]

try this entry:
/dev/sda3 /media/your_user_name/windows ntfs defaults 0 0

[edwardr]

So I gave up on Asunder (which I have used for years) and tried another ripper in the repos, Ripoff, which works just fine with saving to the Windows partition. Thanks for looking in to this for me guys.