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NFS Shares mounted from NTFS partition don't mount on remote machines while NFS shares from EXT4 partitions mount fine.

Asked by EvilSupahFly

I have several Ubuntu machines, one of which, a former Wndows machine converted to ubuntu, acts as a fileserver. From it, I have several shares available consisting of Minecraft saved games, movies, MP3s, etc. On client machines, "showmount -e 1.2.3.4" does show all the shares as being available, but I can't mount the shares from the NTFS partitions. Folders shared from the EXT4 partitions mount fine when I type

sudo mount -t nfs 1.2.3.4:ext4-minecraft-share /home/user001/.minecaft

but if I attempt

sudo mount -t nfs 1.2.3.4:ntfs-minecraft-share /home/user002/.minecraft

I get the error

mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 1.2.3.4:ntfs-minecraft-share

I followed the suggestions in the "NFS with NTFS" article located at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1791330 and it's still not working. The exports appear, as I said, when queried with showmount, but they can't be mounted on the remote machines if they are hosted on the server's NTFS partition.

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EvilSupahFly (seann-giffin) said : 		#1

For what it's worth, I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 x64 on the server, and Ubuntu 12.10 x86 on the clients.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Sharing NTFS is always painful if you use Ubuntu as the server. If possible, avoid NTFS in shares

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EvilSupahFly (seann-giffin) said : 		#3

The server in question was originally dual-boot and attempting to convert1.5 TB of used drivespace from NTFS to EXT4 is even more painful and carries the risk of data loss or corruption, so naturally, sharing was the less painful way to go.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Just format the partition to Ext4 then restore data from backup to the Ext4 partition.

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EvilSupahFly (seann-giffin) said : 		#5

Yes, that's one way to do it, if I had that kind of free space. Currently, I'm moving data in small bits from the NTFS partition to the EXT4 partition, since they are located on the same physical drive, and resizing as I go, working in 4 to 5 GB increments. Yes, I know it's painfully slow, but I can't find any alternatives anywhere, short of buying commercial software. I did find the PartedMagic distro, but it does the same thing, essentially. I was hoping for a cleaner way of doing this, but I guess there isn't one?

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EvilSupahFly (seann-giffin) said : 		#6

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.