

Now if you want these new chnages to take effect there are two options one is you can simply reboot your machine and the second one is without rebooting you need to run the following commands If You want to change your locale option you need to run the following command in a terminal to know which one is supported by your system. dev/hda3 /media/windows ntfs-3g ro,locale=en_US.utf8,uid=1000 0 0 If you want to mount as read only you need to enter the following line in /etc/fstabfile dev/hda3 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0 You need to replace your partition and mount point with your details dev/ /media/ ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0 If you want to mount /dev/hda1 is your windows partition you need to enter the following line in /etc/fstab file Now you need to create a directory where do you mount your windows partitions in this example i ma creating windows directory Now you need to configure your NTFS partitions in /etc/fstab file before doing any changes in /etc/fstab file we will take a backup of this file using the following command (Highly Recommended) Now you need to use the following command to determine all the available partitions
#Ntfs 3g dev sda1 mnt windows install#
If you want to install ntfs-3g run the following command from your terminal Now you need to update the source list using the following command Now you need to import th GPG key for these repositories using the any one of the following command If you are running Ubuntu Edgy enter the following lines save and exit the file If you are running Ubuntu Dapper enter the following lines save and exit the file You need to edit the sources.list file using the following commandĪnd add the following repositories which is suitable for you Most POSIX file system operations are supported, with the notable exception of file ownership and access right changes. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 file systems.


The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support.
#Ntfs 3g dev sda1 mnt windows how to#
This tutorial will show you how to mount NTFS and FAT partitions in ubuntuįor mounting TFS we are going to use one small tool called NTFS-3G this is very powerfull and simple tool. Some of ubuntu users are running their ubuntu machine as dual boot with windows and if you want to access your windows partition data using this guide in a simple manner.
