[Discuss] accessing NTFS partition

[Patrick]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:56:29 -0800
stanfish wrote:

> I have just installed Kubuntu as  dual boot with Vista. I am unable to 
> access the NTFS partitions. Most of the references in the Kubuntu/Ubuntu 
> and Debian forums date from 2006 and seem quite complicated. I thought 
> that read/write capability would be an out of the box function by now. 

Apparently not, but I'm still using Xubuntu 6.10 .

> Knoppix, which I have tried does so. Is there something that I've missed 
> in the installation? Can any of the Kubuntu/Ubuntu users point me to a 
> solution. I have Kubuntu 7.10 installed.

In Synaptic, push the `Search' button and search for `ntfs' with
`Look in: [Description and Name]' selected.

I can't recommend any one program/library, having no NTFS
partitions of my own to play with, but the ntfs-3g package looks
pretty good.  I'm only guessing from the package descriptions,
though.

Does anyone who's actually used one/all/some of these in *buntu
have a favourite to recommend?



One thing to watch out for though; I've read that some NTFS
software can really screw up a partition, if it wasn't cleanly
unmounted when Windows shut down.  This happens more often than
you might think, not just when the system crashes.  Some of the
smarter tools will refuse to mount it, or do anything at all with
it [until properly unmounted, at least], but I don't know which
ones.



> Thanks,
> Stan Fisher

No problem,

Patrick.

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