Ubuntu: Mount NTFS Drives
Mount NTFS drives:
You may be having NTFS formatted partitions on your HDD. The stable ntfs-3g driver now allows Linux systems to read and write NTFS formatted partitions. The ntfs-3g packages comes pre-installed with the newest versions of Ubuntu, but you still need to install ntfs-config if you want the GUI configuration tool. Search for "ntfs-config" in Synaptic or install via terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install ntfs-config
Applications->System Tools->NTFS Configuration Tool
Mounting Windows partitions
You may manually mount/unmount partitions using following commands:
$ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/SOFTWARES - /mnt/SOFTWARES is the mount point $ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5 /mnt/SOFTWARES -o force - force parameter is used in case normal mount fails - sda5 is the physical partition name given by linux $ sudo umount /dev/sda5
To mount USB drives automatically on connection install "usbmount"
