I have spent some time learning basic bash scripting ideas and am finding it fairly easy, its a lot like doing batch files in windows, with syntax differences of course.

So now I am trying to get the bash script to work for a standard debian user and... it does not work :(

So I studied information here : http://forum.ntfs-3g.org/viewforum.php?f=3 and here http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#useroption

After making a few changes to dev and mount point permissions I am able to mount the device as a standard debian user with this

>command ntfs-3g /dev/sda /mnt/test

Once the device is mounted I can run any other standard cp commands and they work as expected. My problem is that If I try to unmount I get the following errors.



heres another way to try it.



so all I need to do now is figure out how to unmount as a standard debian user from the command prompt and my bash script for the office backup server will be ready to go.[/code]

You must use at least NTFS-3G 1.2712 with internal FUSE support to make unprivileged mount safely work.

Ntfs-3g news, support and information: http://ntfs-3g.org

Your driver is very old, unsafe, low performing, and insecure. There were 16(!!!) stable driver releases since then: http://ntfs-3g.org/releases.html

Remove it and install the latest one.

OK, I will manually remove the version of ntfs-3g driver I have and manually install the latest version, I had installed what was available from debian sources previously.

Will let you know how this goes.

I'm a linux beginner and having trouble upgrading to a newer version of ntfs-3g

I downloaded ntfs-3g-1.2812.tgz, extracted it and from a terminal ran ./configure, the response is below..

This means that you either doesn't have a C compiler installed or it's not in your $PATH.

Well I went back to google and searched the net for my new problem, being that my system was not compatable with the latest version of ntfs-3g. Soooo....

I will make a long story short and just say that in order for my system which is a stock standard debian 4 etch, to be able to run the latest version of ntfs-3g I had to install

build-essential_11.3_i386.deb

After installing this bunch of packages I was able to..

./configure
make
make install

And also followed the suggestions related to permissions found here > http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#useroption

I also had to make an entry in the /etc/fstab file like this >
/dev/sda /mnt/test ntfs rw,user,noauto 0 0

I'm not sure if rebooting was required but I did it anyway, I also disabled auto hotplug of devices on my system.

I have learn't a few things following all these posts which is a good thing, and my bash script is working ok at the moment, I should say that I did get a warning lastnight saying that the drive could not be unmounted because it was busy, I will post the exact message when/if I see it again.

I would like to thank szaka for all the help :)