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ntfs support
A cool little app has been released which allows you to safely read and write to your Windows NTFS drives directly in your Linux machine. Previously it was only possible to read from NTFS drives. The driver can be downloaded here. *Note that NTFS-3G is only compatible with 32 bit systems, so the people using 64 bit distro’s are out of luck. Your Linux distro should have Fuse installed, before NTFS-3G is installed. After downloading the NTFS-3G driver you can do the familiar “./configure” then “make” then as root “make install” to compile NTFS-3G. Afterwards it should be as easy as mounting the drives via fstab.
ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
or for full access for all users :
ntfs-3g /dev/(your partition like hda1 or sda1) /mnt/(mount point) -o silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8
For Ubuntu users an easier method than compiling your own driver is provided below. Click the read the rest of the entry link for specific console commands to get your Ubuntu box working with NTFS-3G.
In Ubuntu Dapper you need to have FUSE installed first. Open up your terminal and type in these 3 commands :
wget http://flomertens.keo.in/debian/ntfs-3g/binary-i386/fuse-utils_2.5.3-1_i386.deb
wget http://flomertens.keo.in/debian/ntfs-3g/binary-i386/libfuse2_2.5.3-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libfuse2_2.5.3-1_i386.deb fuse-utils_2.5.3-1_i386.deb
From there download & install the .deb driver :
wget http://flomertens.keo.in/debian/ntfs-3g/binary-i386/ntfs-3g_20070714-BETA-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i ntfs-3g_20070714-BETA-1_i386.deb
Now add your NTFS drive to your fstab file, so it will be loaded on boot up :
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
/dev/(your partition like hda1 or sda1) /media/(mount point) ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
Now you need to add Fuse to your modules file so it can be loaded on boot up :
sudo gedit /etc/modules
Add Fuse to the bottom of the file
Now you can either reboot and the drive will be mounted or you can try mounting it without rebooting by typing this command in the terminal :
ntfs-3g /dev/(your partition like hda1 or sda1) /mnt/(mount point)
Now your NTFS drive should be loaded and ready to read & write to your hearts content.