NTFS not seen in Kubuntu 24

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 6 Jan 2025 08:38:09 +0800 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 6/1/25 08:17, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> > On Sun, 2025-01-05 at 22:15 +0000, Stephen Constantinou wrote:
> >>  Â Â Â Â Â  lsmod | grep ntfs
> >> This command did not output anything
> > 
> > You should get an output when running
> > 
> >    modinfo ntfs3
> > 
> > if so, then you don't need to install ntfs-3g as suggested by Colin,
> > since this module is provided by the kernel.
> > 
> > To load the module run
> > 
> >    sudo modprobe ntfs3
> > 
> > then create a mount point by running
> > 
> >    sudo mkdir /mnt/ntfs
> > 
> > and finally mount the partition.
> > 
> >    sudo mount -t ntfs3 /dev/sdxY /mnt/ntfs
> > 
> 
> Just out of interest, when running a series of sudo commands like that, 
> instead of having to type sudo at the start of each command line, using
> sudo -i
> 
> then each command (without the sudo at the start of the line), then, 
> after having completed the series of sudo commands, enter
> exit
>   to take the login back to the user level, to avoid doing anything at 
> the superuser level, that should not be done at that level.

I actually would not recomend doing that, unless you really know what you are 
doing.  Novices should NEVER use that feature, since they are likely to do 
something bad.

Sudo does "remember" your password -- well not really, but does remember that
you "just" entered it and won't ask again unless you stop using sudo for some
period.

> 
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