HowtoForge: How To Use NTFS Drives/Partitions Under Ubuntu Edgy Eft | Linux Today

HowtoForge: How To Use NTFS Drives/Partitions Under Ubuntu Edgy Eft

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
Jan 8, 2007

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS
partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you
have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g
comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS
driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows
how to install and use ntfs-3g on a Ubuntu Edgy Eft desktop to read
from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions. It covers the
usage of internal NTFS partitions (e.g., in a dual-boot
environment) and of external USB NTFS drives…”

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