Unable to mount NTFS Partitions

I am using Debian 4. I am facing this wierd problem. Whenever i try yo mount my windows partitions(ntfs) i receive the following error message. How do i go about it?

Unable to mount the selected volume.:
libhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but dbuserror was not set.

process 9701: applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_connection_close() docs. this is a bug in the application.

error: device /dev/hda5 is not removable

error: could not execute pmount

I am able to view partitions(ntfs) from my external hard disk, but not from my main hard disk.

How are you trying to mount your partitions? You need to add the entries in your fstab. Have you done that? If yes then post the contents of your /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files.

i am just double clicking the drives in My Computer.
thats how i use my external hdd partitions.
i dont know what entries are to be made in /etc/fstab.
actually i am a newbie in linux. so dont know much about it.

Also i cannot write to the external hdd partitions. it is read only.

ok, i somehow managed to insert the lines in /etc/fstab.
now i am able to access all my partitions.
but i still cant write to them.

here is my /etc/fstab file

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda9 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda10 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/XP ntfs rw,user,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/VISTA ntfs rw,user,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/DOWNLOADS ntfs rw,user,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/JUNK ntfs rw,user,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda8 /mnt/ENTERTAINMENT ntfs rw,user,umask=000 0 0

You need to install ntfs-3g package from your package manager and then at every place where it says "ntfs"...replace it with ntfs-3g

I downloaded the ntfs-3g package from *packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/ntfs-3g

but while installing i got this message.

pkg -i '///home/sachin/ntfs-3g_1.516-1_i386.deb' ;echo RESULT=$?
dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
RESULT=2

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eddie said:
You need to add the entries in your fstab. Have you done that?

Do we need that now, with HAL and pmount around?

sachin_kothari said:
I downloaded the ntfs-3g package from *packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/ntfs-3g

but while installing i got this message.

Why don't you use apt or aptitude?

mehulved said:
Why don't you use apt or aptitude?

Using apt gave me this message

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

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What else is running? Some other instane of apt or aptitude or synaptic or some updates?

konqueror
JuK.
thats it.

ok, i found out.
i closed all applications and run the installer again.
it tells that some packages (fuse) are old and i need the new version (2.6.5)
i downloaded that from sourceforge, but how do i compile that.
i have no idea about compiling.

i downloaded that from sourceforge, but how do i compile that.
i have no idea about compiling.

Check this ... A very detailed how to..

i downloaded all the packages required and installed ntfs-3g.
and then as eddie said replaced "ntfs" with "ntfs-3g" and restarted.
now when i clicked on the partitions, they are gone.
what happened?

here's my /etc/fstab file

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda9 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda10 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/XP ntfs-3g rw,user,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/VISTA ntfs-3g rw,user,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/DOWNLOADS ntfs-3g rw,user,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/JUNK ntfs-3g rw,user,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda8 /mnt/ENTERTAINMENT ntfs-3g rw,user,umask=000 0 0

i suppose i forgot a new line at the end of file.
anyway, that above problem is solved.
but, now when i click on my partitions it says "Malformed URL"
what does that means?

mehulved said:
Do we need that now, with HAL and pmount around?

AFAIK HAL handles removable devices...not the partitions on your hard drive.

sachin_kothari said:
but, now when i click on my partitions it says "Malformed URL"
what does that means?

Where are you clicking these partitions? You need to go to to /mnt directory and there all your mounted partitions are. If it still doesn't solve...post the contents of /etc/mtab.

thanks everyone.

finally managed to get through.
i was checking in /media, but as u said it is in /mnt directory.
thanks a lot for bearing with my silly mistakes.

ohh..i came late.U can use Synaptic package manager to install packages.

Code:

dpkg: status database area is locked by another process

^^ this is coz apt-get is already working.so

Code:

~#killall -9 apt-get

is ur option if u really wants.

praka123 said:
ohh..i came late.U can use Synaptic package manager to install packages.

Code:

dpkg: status database area is locked by another process

^^ this is coz apt-get is already working.so

Code:

~#killall -9 apt-get

is ur option if u really wants.

i closed all the running applications and that did solved my problem while installing ntfs-3g packages.

^^ that error u got was not becoz of running konqueror,but due to some way apt-get is working earlier.