[Discuss] accessing NTFS partition

[Lloyd Budd]

On Jan 21, 2008 9:56 PM, stanfish <stanfish at shaw.ca> 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.
> 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.

Hi Stan,

I haven't had to play with this yet, but this is one of the things
that I was happy to hear was in the recent Ubuntu. As it isn't highly
publicized I suspect that people aren't highly confident that it is
stable and robust.

I just tried it and it both read and write of NTFS from Vista work on
my very vanilla Ubuntu 7.10 without installing any other packages --
although it is slow. All I had to do was go to Places > Computer and
double click on the disk to mount it. It seems that it is the ntfs-3g
package that is making this possible.

Please let us know how it goes,
Lloyd