Full NTFS-Write Access for Linux with ntfs-3g
Shortly after the news about a new driver at
SlashDot∞, in in German at
Pro-Linux-News∞ the Kanotix-Team has packaged and tested it for you. But before it will probalby be added to the next release we need more serious testing. That's what this
Howto is all about.
Warning!
ntfs-3g is not just a small application, but a real file system driver. If you insist on testing it be prepared to do some manual configuration. It's still early beta, not trivial and impossible for us to support.
Again: This is an early beta driver. Never use it without external backup, and of course not on production systems!!!
1. For the beginning you need ntfsprogs and all the fuse-stuff installed.
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l|awk '/captive/{print $2}'|xargs apt-get remove --purge --yes
apt-get install ntfsprogs libfuse2 libfuse-dev
modprobe fuse
2. Now download the ntfs-3g-package and install it:
apt-get update
apt-get install ntfs-3g
3. And now take your time to read the manual (you will find there also solutions for changing languages, or how to avoid strange characters in file names):
4. Finally you may try mounting:
mount -o silent,umask=0 -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdaX /media/hdaX
Thx to ntfs-3g-Developers and Kanotix-Team !
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