yes ntfs package must be used otherwise there is no support.. Bhavani Shankar. <div>On 2/3/07, Matthew Flaschen <<a href="mailto:matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu"> matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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 <<a href="mailto:james@jamesandportia.com"> james@jamesandportia.com</a>> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-users mailing list >> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> >> >> > -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>