Accessing NTFS USB drive

[sjwoo]

Hey folks,

I can't seem to access my USB flash drive that's formatted in NTFS. fdisk -l gives me this:

Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 32 125304831 62652400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

ls -l gives me this:

[root@alarmpi etc]# ls -l /media
ls: cannot access /media/64gb: Transport endpoint is not connected
total 4
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? 64gb
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 sd-mmcblk0p1

I have automount installed. Why am I not able to access this drive? I'm coming from running ALARM on Pogo, where this drive worked just fine.

- Sung

[sjwoo]

Ugh, never mind:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G

- Sung

[sjwoo]

Doh! Spoke too soon. When I go into the dir, there's nothing there:

[root@alarmpi 64gb]# ls -l
total 0

My fstab looks like this:

[root@alarmpi 64gb]# cat /etc/fstab
#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 0

Is automount supposed to automatically update fstab? Or does it do it in another way?

- Sung

[twix]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 0')

vfat is for FAT16/FAT32 partitions, use ntfs-3g for NTFS partitions

[moonman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')root@alarmpi etc]# ls -l /media
ls: cannot access /media/64gb: Transport endpoint is not connected
total 4
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? 64gb

[Huulivoide]

You need to manually edit the /etc/fstab

[moonman]

Not necesserily, udev-automount doesn't work with ntfs. Use udevil. Last post under udev-automount thread.