Installing ntfs-3g On Etch

Debian 13 July 2007 12 Comments



If you would like to read & write to your ntfs partition (windows’s partition), installing ntfs-3g on your machine is a better solution. This is the method I used to install ntfs-3g on my debian etch :

1. Remove old libfuse (if any) :

sudo apt-get remove libfuse2 fuse-utils

2. Get required package:

wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/n/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g_1.328-2_i386.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/n/ntfs-3g/libntfs-3g0_1.328-2_i386.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.6.3-2_i386.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.6.3-2_i386.deb

3. Install it!

dpkg -i libfuse2_2.6.3-2_i386.deb fuse-utils_2.6.3-2_i386.deb libntfs-3g0_1.328-2_i386.deb
dpkg -i ntfs-3g_1.328-2_i386.deb

Let me know if it doesn’t work for you. Now, you can mount your ntfs partition. This is an example how I do it:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb -t ntfs-3g



  • Frank

    Worked for me, Thanks!

    I can now write to the drive but you still get the message saying to upgrade the kernel.

  • King visu

    Worked for me.

    Thanks a lot

  • Meint

    Worked for me too. Thanks.

    Receive the upgrade kernel message aswell, and receive a lot of
    “Aug 16 16:54:12 liamer-clone kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 99783437″ messages in the /var/log/message log file.

    Regards, Meint

    PS: Work on a XEN virtual server, USB device exported to the XEN domain via DOM0

  • joey

    Yeaaaah it worked also for me!
    Thanks :-D

  • Alex

    Your info was a GREAT help !
    Thank’s and good luck ..
    Alex

  • jovani

    great!works for me.
    thanks

  • http://mathgr.freehostia.com shortmanikos

    Thanks, worked for me to….

  • mihai

    Thanks , worked

  • Venkatesh R

    Thanks a lot…

    working fine for me :)

  • http://starliuhome.spaces.live.com/ Star Liu

    thanks, it works for my lenny

  • Anuj

    hi

    Thanks Alot
    it works fine but with a warning ;)

  • Jhon

    Nice one dude… :D