Volatile Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I had a Windows 2003 Server installation which was a print server and a file server. I have 3 hard drives. Drive 1: hda - linux install Drive 2: hdb - old server 2k3 install w/ wwwroot files Drive 3: hdd - media files (mp3 collection, softaware, etc.) hdc = dvdrw I initially had Drive 2,3 unplugged just to make sure ubuntu would not overwrite information trying to chose another drive for its install. After the install I connected to drives up and they show up in ubuntu under that lineup. Drive 2,3 are formatted in NTFS... so ubuntu doesn't like it. I will probably have to buy another hard drive and just slave it to use instead of 2 & 3. What I need to know is.. how to get it so that I am able to read the drives and copy the information needed from 2 & 3 to the new drive formatted for linux? The new drive will be shared over the network as I access the wwwroot files on a normal basis. -samba is installed- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted February 7, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 7, 2008 I don't play much with NTFS in Linux, since I haven't used Windows on any of my PCs in ages. If NTFS support isn't included 'out of the box' due to potential patent issues with redistribution, it can easily be added. Use your package manager, open up the optional extra repositories to access the 'non-free' stuff (including things like proprietary nVidia drivers and such). Then search for ntfs3g. Add and install it. You should be able to see and click open your hard drives on your desktop with no problem. (Y) EDIT: As a side note, I am not sure of the wisdom of serving from an NTFS partition, as it does not support *nix permissions. That means that all areas would be potentially "executable", and might make your system slightly more prone to malicious attacks. (if a black-hatter were able to upload a file to your server, it would be executable just because it is on and NTFS filesystem) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borbus Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 NTFS support is available out of the box with Ubuntu. If your partitions aren't mounting there must be a problem. Try mounting them manually like this: sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1 (assuming Ubuntu created /media/hdb1 for you) If it won't mount there will be a reason. A common reason is that the partition is left "locked" by Windows because you didn't unmount if properly (usually because doze crashed or you unplugged an external drive without doing "safe removal"). If that's the case then just add the option force to it like this: sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1 -o force And yes you should get rid of the NTFS partition because it will make your linux box almost as insecure as windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volatile Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 gotcha.. it did pop back and tell me i could force it... will have to try it when i get home and report what the result is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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