Comments on: Enable/Disable write support for windows NTFS partition with simple click

By: M Nabeel Imran

M Nabeel Imran — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:22:22 +0000

Although read/write support is there but the NTFS partitions are not mounted on startup.

Plus I believe this tool gives a GUI front-end to ntfs-3g.

Thank you for the elaborate article.

By: Noctua

Noctua — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:59:00 +0000

This article was a lifesaver. Jaunty was, indeed, able to read/write to the NTFS partition out of the box, but this ability was gone after upgrading to Karmic Koala. Thank you for posting the information that helped me to regain access to my NTFS files.

By: The Doctor

The Doctor — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:45:59 +0000

Actually, we need to do it the other way around. We need to access the Linux ext4 partition from Windows. And so far none of the currently available software will work.

By: JeffH0821

JeffH0821 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:20:38 +0000

This is totally unnecessary and will cause much confusion. The ‘ntfs-3g’ driver has been integrated into Gnome since at least Ubuntu 9.04 - most likely earlier. ‘ntfs-config’ has been SPECIFICALLY excluded from the distro for this reason. Please consider taking down your article.

By: Dr_Willis

Dr_Willis — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:11:33 +0000

But by default the users don’t have ‘full’ access to all the ntfs filesystems. Or they have read only access. This can cause confusion when the users are expecting full r/w access by default.

Personally I remember to tell the installer where to mount my ntfs filesystems.

By: Phil James

Phil James — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:53:52 +0000

I’ve been using Ubuntu in a dual boot for 2 years now, and I thought it was normal that Ubuntu could see, mount and write to Windows. I just accepted it was the magic of Ubuntu.

By: Dusten Barker

Dusten Barker — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:02:10 +0000

NTFS write support has been out-of-box for Ubuntu for nearly 2 years now.