{"id":32,"date":"2007-04-23T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2010-02-10T23:52:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T04:52:04","slug":"ntfs-3g-mount-your-writeable-ntfs-filesystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/ntfs-3g-mount-your-writeable-ntfs-filesystems\/","title":{"rendered":"NTFS-3G : Mount your &#8220;writeable&#8221; NTFS filesystems!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting for a good writeable NTFS file system.  I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jankratochvil.net\/project\/captive\/\">Captive-NTFS<\/a> but wasn&#8217;t really happy with it.  Lots of errors when I used it last in July &#8211; August 2006 (if I remember the timeline correctly).  Now we have a great writeable NTFS file system for Linux called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntfs-3g.org\/\">NTFS-3g<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On my Kubuntu machine, I installed it as:<br \/><span style=\"font-family: courier new;\">sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g<\/span><br \/>I also installed ntfsprogs available from http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/unstable\/otherosfs\/ntfsprogs for my Kubuntu machine.  The use for the NTFS-Progs is that you can use utils like ntfs fix if your mounted NTFS is tainted.  If you do not have a latest version installed of ntfs-progs you might run into issues where ntfsfix might not work.  Use the latest version from the above link. You might need to install libntfs9 from the debian package as<br \/><span style=\"font-family: courier new;\">dpkg -i libntfs9_1.13.1-6+b2_i386.deb<\/span><br \/>Now I was getting tired of having to unount my NTFS partitions first and then re-mount them in ntfs-3g mode to make them writeable.  So I installed <a href=\"http:\/\/flomertens.free.fr\/ntfs-config\/\">ntfs-config<\/a> and also the <a href=\"http:\/\/flomertens.free.fr\/ntfs-config\/download\/pmount_0.9.13-1givre4_i386.deb\">patched pmount debian package<\/a>.  Then all you have to do is run ntfs-config and choose the option that suits you best.<br \/>Now all my USB drives that have NTFS on it mount in read\/write mode!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting for a good writeable NTFS file system. I used Captive-NTFS but wasn&#8217;t really happy with it. Lots of errors when I used it last in July &#8211; August 2006 (if I remember the timeline correctly). Now we have a great writeable NTFS file system for Linux called NTFS-3g. On my Kubuntu machine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[298,272,329,328],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howto","tag-kubuntu","tag-linux","tag-ntfs","tag-ntfs-3g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}