Comments on How To Use NTFS Drives/Partitions Under Ubuntu Edgy Eft
How To Use NTFS Drives/Partitions Under Ubuntu Edgy Eft 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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In the unbuntuusers.org forum most people are saying the ntfs write is still experimental. So I would add a note on top that the use of ntfs-3g may result in a total data loss....
After the reboot, if the ntfs drive is not mounted automatically open /etc/modules file & add 'fuse' in a new line. This will load the fuse module.
eg:
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
fuse
Reboot the system to see the effect.