Make the ntfs file system writable

How Can I Make the ntfs file system writable?

The ntfs file systems were read only on Linux. On the 14th of July 2006, a developer of the linux-ntfs team, Szabolcs Szakacsits, revolution this area by releasing a new driver ntfs-3g which claimed to provide full read/write support for all NTFS partition. After months of successful testing by hundreds of thousands of users in beta status, ntfs-3g is now fully stable.

For mounting NTFS you can use one small tool called NTFS-3G this is very powerfull and simple tool.

For those who are using Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Open the terminal and type $ sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g ntfs-config . This will make your windows ntfs partitions writable.

For those who are using Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Ft.

Go to CLI . Then there type $ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then the gedit will open and there you have to add teh following lines in the last. Then save the file and exit.

deb http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/ edgy main
deb http://ntfs-3g.sitesweetsite.info/ubuntu/ edgy main
deb http://flomertens.keo.in/ubuntu/ edgy main

Now update the source list by using the command $ sudo apt-get update

If you want to install ntfs-3g run the following command from your terminal $ sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g