Ntfs-3g

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The latest stable version is 2010.1.16, released on January 16, 2010.

Availability:

Linux: Most distributions includes and uses NTFS-3G. Please use that one unless it’s an old version.If you wish to install NTFS-3G from the source code then make sure youhave installed the basic development tools (gcc compiler, libc-devlibraries). Then type:

./configuremakemake install # or 'sudo make install' if you aren't root

Non-Linux: Please see the OS specific installation and source packages above.

If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume canbe mounted in read-write mode for everybody as follows. Unmount thevolume if it had already been mounted, replace /dev/sda1 and/mnt/windows, if needed.

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

Please see the NTFS-3G Manual for more options and examples.

You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by adding the following line to the end of the /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0