Mounting NTFS into Ubuntu

[Bhavani Shankar R]

yes ntfs package must be used otherwise there is no support..
Bhavani Shankar.

On 2/3/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > So why isn't NTFS supported natively?
>
> My understanding is that it's proprietary and sparsely documented.
>
> It's been around for a long time
> > (a decade? or more?) and it seems that most Linux users are from the
> > Windows world (especially from the "pro"/"hacker" side of things
>
> I would guess you're wrong here.  The hardcore people mostly started
> with UNIX, I think.
>
> so
> > would be more inclined to be using the more robust server-like
> > features of Windows NT/XP Pro).
>
> Again, I'm not sure, but I think NTFS is less robust than e.g. ReiserFS
> for typical use.
>
> Matthew Flaschen
>
> >
> > Eric.
> >
> > On 02/02/07, James Bertelson <james at jamesandportia.com> wrote:
> >>  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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