Mount NTFS File System in Ubuntu (debian)

by Mr Me on February 6, 2008 in linux

Steps:

1) sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

Installs ntfs-3g library
2) sudo fdisk -l

Shows all the disk drives
3) sudo mkdir /media/windowsC

Create a directory for mounting your NTFS file system

4) sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak

Take a backup of old conf file

5) gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Edit the configuration file

6) /dev/sda2 /media/windowsC ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

Add the above line to the end of that file. (Here sda2 is the ntfs partition, getting from fdisk -l )

Restart ubuntu and you can see the ntfs filesystem mounted on /media/windowsC

6 Comments linux, mount, ntfs, ubuntu

Bipin February 21, 2008 at 8:34 pm #

hello sajith
I have a doubt.Is it nesessary to install the packege that u told because in my ubuntu system the ntfs got mounted without installing the pakage you mentioned.Also when i searched with apt-cache i cant find any packege like you mentioned.

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Sajith M.R February 21, 2008 at 11:05 pm #

i dont know. in my case i needed to install that package for mounting ntfs file system.

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Raki April 7, 2008 at 1:13 pm #

Hello,

The ntfs can be reset while installing or formatting the system.

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gmullen September 21, 2008 at 10:54 am #

This worked great thank you so much

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Lukas March 25, 2009 at 2:15 am #

well i followed the steps… but windowC folder is empty… and i know my partition is not empty…. i got 50gbs of stuff in there

any suggestions to what may be the problem?

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Hiro27 September 4, 2009 at 12:37 pm #

Thanks a lot… its work for my Ubuntu 9.04… Suddenly I can’t mount my ntfs partition before it… it says wrong hald reply or something… but now its even better than before. Now its automatically mounted on boot.

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