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Notes: Enabling NTFS on LG NAS ( N2B1 )

Jotting down some Notes for enabling the LG N2B1 BluRay NAS to read/write NTFS partitioned USB drives using new firmware and the NTFS-3G package.

  1. Flash new N2B1 firmware to enable SSH server so one can get access to the command prompt on the device:
    Tantalus’ N2B1 Firmware
    Author used N2R1 2569t
  2. Enable SSH in the web console and login into the NAS device using a SSH Client.
  3. login as root . See FAQ. 
  4. if virgin use of apt-get; initialize the repositories using:
    apt-get update
  5. use apt-get to install gcc compiler.
    apt-get install build-essential
  6. apt-get will fail to install libc6 library; use workaround here:

    mv /sbin/init /sbin/init.mv
    touch /sbin/init
    chmod 755 /sbin/init
    dpkg –configure libc6
    apt-get update
    mv /sbin/init.mv /sbin/init

    WARNING: If you execute the first command, you have to execute the last command, before you reboot your NAS-Box

  7. repeat apt-get install build-essential
  8. gcc -v to verify gcc compiler has been installed and is working.
  9. download NTFS-3G from Tuxera.  Author used: ntfs-3g-2010.10.2
  10. untar: tar xvf ntfs-3g-2010.10.2.gz
  11. cd ntfs-3g-2010.10.2
  12. ./configure –prefix=/usr/lib to install to the correct directory. on Author’s system; the system autoconfigured to /usr/local which caused problems during make install.
  13. make
  14. make install as root. or sudo make install
  15. you should then be able to to mount NTFS partitions using:

    mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs

Many Thanks to forum.NAS-Portal.org for hosting the information necessary to piece this together.