[Nix-dev] problem with automounted ntfs partitions

[Máté Kovács]

That worked and make the install happen, thanks!

Sadly, the NTFS partition is still mounted RO.

Could you please give me a few pointers on where to look for tweaking that?

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016, 01:02 Thomas Hunger <tehunger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mate,
>
> Can you try
>
> nix-env -iA nixos.ntfs3g
>
> instead?
>
> On 16 February 2016 at 07:10, Máté Kovács <mkovaxx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The problem I'm trying to solve is that automounted ntfs partitions are
>> read-only.
>>
>> For example, `mount | column -t` lists
>> /dev/sdb1   on  /run/media/mate/adata       type  ntfs
>>  (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0177,dmask=077,nls=utf8,errors=continue,mft_zone_multiplier=1,uhelper=udisks2)
>> after I connect my external HDD.
>>
>> I read somewhere that the problem is likely a lack of ntfs-3g, so I'm
>> trying to install that, unfortunately without much success.
>>
>> What's strange is that `nix-env -qaP | grep -i ntfs` lists
>> nixos.ntfs3g
>>  ntfs-3g-2015.3.14
>> yet `nix-env -i ntfs3g` insists on showing
>> error: selector ‘ntfs3g’ matches no derivations
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>> How do I install ntfs-3g? Is that even what I need to do here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mate
>>
>>
>>
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