debianadmin.com— This is very simple tutorial how to mount your NTFS and FAT partitions in ubuntu and make these Partitons as read and writable
Nov 13, 2006View in Crawl 4
I know out of safety concerns it doesn't write to fstab, but it would be nice if at the very least the installer either 1) gave you the option to make it accessible or 2) mounted it read only.I believe Suse has been doing it for years without repercussions (and as an aside, if Suse 10.1 didn't suck so horrifically, I'd still be using it).As for myself, three partitions - NTFS for XP, FAT32 with all my shared documents (music, docs, pictures, etc.) and the third for Linux (K/Eft 6.10). My Documents is linked to a folder on the shared drive, and no program complains about it.
@Avogadro65Well... I can't agree with you entirely. Back when I used to use Windows, I was constantly tweaking the system to perfection by making all kinds of registry entries and fiddling with config files. I was looking for the ultimate experience in general. Then I discovered Linux and the endless possibilities there for an even more ultimate experience. So, for someone like me, the "aggravation" whether in Windows or Linux was certainly worth it. And in the end, I would say that no matter which OS I use, I'd be constantly working on it to make things just right because no one has developed the perfect OS for me. However, with Linux I can come a lot closer to my ideal than I can with Windows...
captive is slow, buggy and unmaintained.It seamed at first to be a good idea, butthey didn't manage to get it really working.ntfs-3g just works.People that are not convince should just try it.<a class="user" href="http://www.ntfs-3g.org">http://www.ntfs-3g.org</a>
NTFS-3g is already in Fedora Extras (this repository is enabled by default, you don't need to do anything to add it)open a terminal, change to root (or sudo, if you set that up), yum install ntfs-3g, and you're done.then to mount (open a terminal, change to root):mkdir /cntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /c(for read-only, use: ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /c -o ro)Use NTFS-3g instead of the outdated methods (Captive, kernel mods,etc).
mtxblauNov 13, 2006
I know out of safety concerns it doesn't write to fstab, but it would be nice if at the very least the installer either 1) gave you the option to make it accessible or 2) mounted it read only.I believe Suse has been doing it for years without repercussions (and as an aside, if Suse 10.1 didn't suck so horrifically, I'd still be using it).As for myself, three partitions - NTFS for XP, FAT32 with all my shared documents (music, docs, pictures, etc.) and the third for Linux (K/Eft 6.10). My Documents is linked to a folder on the shared drive, and no program complains about it.
0kontrol0Nov 13, 2006
Tips and Tricks: How to mount your windows partition with SuSE:do absolutely nothing, it is automatic.
Closed AccountNov 13, 2006
Linux can read/write NTFS? That's pretty cool-wish I had that on OS X.
vincenoirNov 13, 2006
@Avogadro65Well... I can't agree with you entirely. Back when I used to use Windows, I was constantly tweaking the system to perfection by making all kinds of registry entries and fiddling with config files. I was looking for the ultimate experience in general. Then I discovered Linux and the endless possibilities there for an even more ultimate experience. So, for someone like me, the "aggravation" whether in Windows or Linux was certainly worth it. And in the end, I would say that no matter which OS I use, I'd be constantly working on it to make things just right because no one has developed the perfect OS for me. However, with Linux I can come a lot closer to my ideal than I can with Windows...
antdudeNov 13, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://duggmirror.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Tricks_How_to_Mount_Your_Windows_Partitons_make_it_read_writable/">http://duggmirror.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Tricks_How_to_Mount_Your_Windows_Partitons_make_it_read_writable/</a>
slipknoticNov 13, 2006
Now if only someone could do this for FC6:(.
givreNov 14, 2006
captive is slow, buggy and unmaintained.It seamed at first to be a good idea, butthey didn't manage to get it really working.ntfs-3g just works.People that are not convince should just try it.<a class="user" href="http://www.ntfs-3g.org">http://www.ntfs-3g.org</a>
dreeNov 14, 2006
NTFS-3g is the preferred over Captive to read/write in Linux. Just because Captive uses the windows' sys file, that doesn't mean it better.
dreeNov 14, 2006
NTFS-3g is already in Fedora Extras (this repository is enabled by default, you don't need to do anything to add it)open a terminal, change to root (or sudo, if you set that up), yum install ntfs-3g, and you're done.then to mount (open a terminal, change to root):mkdir /cntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /c(for read-only, use: ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /c -o ro)Use NTFS-3g instead of the outdated methods (Captive, kernel mods,etc).