mounting NTFS on ubuntu

Zachary Stern rollerskatejamms at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 09:20:07 UTC 2007


Hey Pushparaj

The command is:

mount -t ntfs /dev/device /mountpoint

For example, on my laptop, which has a SATA hard drive, I use:

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/sda1

However, that command provides READ ONLY access.

If you want to write to an ntfs partition, install ntfs-3g.

Best,
-Zach

On 2/8/07, Pushparaj Shetty <shettypraj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Kindly provide the coomand to mount NTFS on Ubuntu 6.10.
> I tried
> # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/C -t ntfs -r
>
> Though it didnt give any error, It says:
> You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "C".
>
> Below is my patition list:
> Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        2550    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2            2551        5305    22129537+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda3            5306        9729    35535780   83  Linux
> /dev/sda5            2551        5100    20482843+   b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/sda6            5101        5113      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/sda7            5114        5305     1542208+  82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
>
>
> Thanks in advance
> Pushparaj
>
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