How to mount NTFS ?

[dmt]

My Host OS is XP and I am runing Ubuntu on Virtualbox. Tryed a read\write and graphic method to mount NTFS but no matches, permission denied. Anybody had the same problem and know how to solve it? or it's not possible to mount NTFS using Ubuntu on Virtual box? Could anybody tell steb by step? Help! Thanks for answers!

[TerryE]

As far as an Ubuntu Guest goes, mounting a remote NTFS share just uses standard smb functionality exactly the same as Ubuntu on bare hardware. I don't think this is a VBox issue. It's an Ubuntu howto one.

Mounting host share is a different issue and is covered in the Forum FAQ.

[technocp]

you can mount remote ntfs drive as a smb file system with smbfs the command will be

mount -t cifs //host_ip_address/share_name -o username=win_user_name,password=password_for_user /mount/point

[dmt]

Not working, and in FAQ there's no problem solution like in my case, so I'm asking again, I need to mount NTFS . I Tried this but not working

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root@Ubuntu-test:~# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/windisk -o force
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda1' 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?

[TerryE]

dmt, why not start by reading the Forum Posting Guide as you are advised to do before posting. I just get the impression that in framing your Q, you are making a lot of implicit (and quite possibly wrong) assumptions.

The mount command that you've quote will attempt to mount /dev/sda1 as an NTFS partition. Given that on a standard Ubuntu install to a blank disk, sda1 is the Ext3 root partition, I would expect to see exactly the error message that you quote. So tell us what are you trying to mount? Is it a partition inside one of your VDIs? Is it a physical partitions on your host PC (and if so, if this already mounted in your XP host)? Or is it an NTFS share that offered by the host or another PC on your LAN?

We can't help you if you don't provide the basic information that we need to help.

[stefan.becker]

Are you sure that sda is NTFS?

Check it with gparted.

[Sasquatch]

DMT, /dev/sda is usually your primary hard drive. For a VM, it is it's root drive. Expecting /dev/sda1 to be your primary partition on the Host is just plain stupid. The Guest OS doesn't even see the Host hard drive. The file system on the Host might be NTFS, but once you talk to it over a network, you use the network file system protocol, like Samba.

[kernel-of-truth]

If I want to mount the Host OS's main NTFS partition to the filesystem within my Guest-OS VM

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I verify that cifs-utils is installed on the Guest-OS VM

$ apt list cifs-utils
Listing... Done
cifs-utils/bionic,now 2:6.8-1 amd64 (installed)

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If cifs-utils is NOT installed, I install it

$ sudo apt install cifs-utils
[sudo] password for <lin-user-name>: <enter password>
...
Enter uppercase Y to install
...
$

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I create a directory on the Guest VM filesystem as a mount point for the NTFS partition

$ mkdir ~/<dir-name-for-mount-point>

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I mount the Win Host-OS partition

$ sudo  mount -t cifs -o user=<win-user-name-here> \\\\<IP-of-Host-machine-here>\\C$ /home/<lin-user-name>/winc

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LEGEND

  -t   Type of filesystem ( cifs )
  -o   Options
 user= [valid-windows-user-name]
 \\   2 backslashes expand to a single backslash during processing
      4 backslahses to get 2 for URI hostname
      2 backslahses to get 1 for URI share path
 C$   Standard-windows sharename for C drive

KoT

[mpack]

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