Ubuntu Tricks - How to mount Windows partitions read/writable
Previously I looked at mounting your NTFS drive on your Ubuntu box using raw Fuse to do it. Now we’re going to look at what may be a better way to do it. It’s certainly easier and from reports, NTFS-3G is a bit more stable as well. This Howto is written specifically for and from Ubuntu 6.10 - Edgy Eft but should work on any Debian based distro.
It should be noted that NTFS-3G is a BETA project and as such may contain bugs and issues. Writing to NTFS from Linux may be unstable so you should use this at your own risk.
The first thing you’re going to have to do is install NTFS-3G. Let’s open up a terminal session and do the following:
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Debian HOW-TO : Writing to NTFS
On July 14th, Szakacsits Szabolcs, a developer for the Linux-NTFS project published a major update of the Linux NTFS driver. It is now possible to write to an NTFS partition in a safe manner.
I've tested it for months now and I have yet to report any issue. In fact, I have had more troubles with the old NTFS driver which allowed read-only operations on NTFS partitions.
So here we go...
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