Re: Mounting NTFS into Ubuntu

You'll want to use ntfs-3g. Note that it's still "experimental" but
pretty stable. I've had no problems, large writes are a bit slow
though.

To install:
aptitude install ntfs-3g

then change your mount command to:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp -t ntfs-3g

Or add it to your /etc/fstab file to mount on boot with the line below:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 21:48 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:

Hello all, I'm trying to mount an NTFS formatted partition into Ubuntu
as a READ-WRITE partition without success.

Each time I try mounting it I can only get it as a "read-only file
system". I've tried numerous tricks as reported for the Ubuntu Live
CDs (in "rescue" mode) and they've all come up blank:

e.g.
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222

This gives me read-only access to NTFS (my apologies if this is a
no-brainer question... I've never had to deal with NTFS partitions
before).

How can I _write_ to the NTFS partition?

Thanks, Eric.


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