ubuntu and NTFS

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:20:49AM +0100, KEVIN NOLAN wrote:
> Nice OS, just installed for the first time. I was
> wondering is there a way of seeing, using files and
> applications on a NTFS file system (windows), with
> Ubuntu. Do I mount the other drives or ????
> I don't properly know what I am doing, and don't want
> to wreck the windows installation. Ubuntu is set up on
> my third HDD.

I'm not in front of an NTFS box right now, but the last time
I tried to do it, it was just a matter of using mount(8) --
something like

mount -t ntfs /dev/ntfs_device /mnt/mount_point

or whatever. Last I knew, Linux could only read NTFS, not
write to it, but that was a few years ago.

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Stephen R. Laniel
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