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ntfs-3g, Ubuntu and Vista

  • 19-03-2007 11:40AM
    #1
    joe_chicken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭


    Ok, I've trawled the Ubuntu forums, and it seems nobody really has a problem with ntfs-3g.... I unfortunately haven't been so lucky

    So, I'm gonna see if any of you clever people on boards can sort me out :)

    Here's my setup:
    3 SATA drives
    2 disk RAID 0 array with Vista installed
    and 1 single SATA with Ubuntu

    When I do an fdisk -l (from Ubuntu), I see: 
    /dev/sda2   *           7        1312    10485760    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            1312       38904   301959168    7  HPFS/NTFS

    But then when I try putting 
    /dev/sda2 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
    in /etc/fstab, mount -a gives me 
    NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument
Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda2' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?

    I have ntfs-3g 1.0, the machine is originally a Dell, so whether the way they partitioned is messing it up, I'm not sure (don't really want to repartition the whole machine)

    Any help appreciated, thanks.


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