Please help me mount my data HD

[NoOp]

On 09/27/2008 11:33 AM, Rashkae wrote:
> Edgar Sarino wrote:
>> To ubuntu-users,
>> 
>> Greetings.  I am new to ubuntu, but I thought that I would give it
>> a try.
>> 
>> I have a Dell Precision with two SCSI HDs - a 36 GB HD (onto which
>> I installed ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition) and a data 137 GB HD,
>> which I left alone.  I thought that the installer would
>> automatically reformat both drives - instead, it left the 137 GB HD
>> alone, and when I try to access it or view it, I get an error
>> message which states that the drive has the NTFS file system and is
>> therefore umountable.
>> 
>> Question: How do I reformat the drive, and/or make the drive
>> mountable?
>> 
> 
> To begin with, the drive should already be mountable read only.  If
> you open the Nautilus file browser. (Places menu on your gnome menu)
> and choose Computer, you should see a 130GB Filesystem, double click
> on that to mount it.  Now you should be able to read the data from
> the drive.
> 
> Unfortunately, Write support for NTFS is limited and considered beta 
> only.  If you want to reformat this drive for use in linux, I suggest
>  installing the gparted partition editor.  ('sudo apt-get install 
> gparted' from a terminal should do the trick, or find gparted with
> the synaptic package manager.)

Actually it hasn't been considered beta for over a year now, and is
included in 8.04 as a stable/standard package:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/ntfs-3g

Also see:
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions/ThirdPartyNTFS3G>
http://ntfs-3g.org/releases.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/ntfs-3g
[only 2 bug reports]

I've experienced no problems reading/writing to ntfs drives on Hardy.