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A.r. Naresh
Asked: 2013-05-05 10:50:49 +0800 CST

tried ntfs format in terminal but says internal error

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I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 with Linux kernel 3.8 which has ntfs-3g package but again asks to install it, when tried the terminal does not respond! as I am new to ask Ubuntu I'm not allowed to post the links else I would do it. http://tripleasolutions.freeiz.com/456.png

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1 Answers

  1. 1st of all its a bug mkfs.ntfs link is broken and fails

    Just copy paste the following command to FIX it.

    sudo ln -s /sbin/mkntfs  /usr/sbin/mkntfs

    OR

    sudo rm -rf /sbin/mkfs.ntfs && sudo ln -s /sbin/mkntfs /sbin/mkfs.ntfs

    Done

    sudo mkfs.

    enter image description here

    If you do 

    locate mkfs.ntfs

    The output will be

    /sbin/mkfs.ntfs
/usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.ntfs.8.gz

    When you do ls -l to mkfs.ntfs

          ls -l /sbin/mkfs.ntfs
      lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Apr 25 23:53 /sbin/mkfs.ntfs -> /usr/sbin/mkntfs
                                                 (Red)                (RED)

    See the link has been broken and there is no mkntfs and if you do 

      locate mkntfs

    Its in /sbin not in /usr/sbin

     /sbin/mkntfs
 /usr/share/man/man8/mkntfs.8.gz

    So now its up to you want to want to do, remove the link and make new one OR relink the old one with another link

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