Mount NTFS File System in Ubuntu (debian)
Posted on 06. Feb, 2008 by Sajith M.R 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
Bipin
Feb 21st, 2008
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.
Sajith M.R
Feb 21st, 2008
i dont know. in my case i needed to install that package for mounting ntfs file system.
Raki
Apr 7th, 2008
Hello,
The ntfs can be reset while installing or formatting the system.
gmullen
Sep 21st, 2008
This worked great thank you so much
Lukas
Mar 25th, 2009
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?
Hiro27
Sep 4th, 2009
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.