Mount your widows Partitions and make it read and writable
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This tutorial will show you how to mount NTFS and FAT partitions in ubuntu
For mounting TFS we are going to use one small tool called NTFS-3G this is very powerfull and simple tool.
The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 file systems. Most POSIX file system operations are supported, with the notable exception of file ownership and access right changes.
You need to edit the sources.list file using the following command
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and add the following repositories which is suitable for you
If you are running Ubuntu Dapper enter the following lines save and exit the file
deb http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/ dapper main main-all
deb http://ntfs-3g.sitesweetsite.info/ubuntu/ dapper main main-all
deb http://flomertens.keo.in/ubuntu/ dapper main main-all
If you are running Ubuntu Edgy enter the following lines save and exit the file
deb http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/ edgy main
deb http://ntfs-3g.sitesweetsite.info/ubuntu/ edgy main
deb http://flomertens.keo.in/ubuntu/ edgy main
Now you need to import th GPG key for these repositories using the any one of the following command
wget http://flomertens.keo.in/ubuntu/givre_key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add --
wget http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/givre_key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add --
Now you need to update the source list using the following command
sudo apt-get update
Install ntfs-3g in Ubuntu
If you want to install ntfs-3g run the following command from your terminal
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
Configuring ntfs-3g
Now you need to use the following command to determine all the available partitions
sudo fdisk -l
Now you need to configure your NTFS partitions in /etc/fstab file before doing any changes in /etc/fstab file we will take a backup of this file using the following command (Highly Recommended)
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
Now you need to create a directory where do you mount your windows partitions in this example i ma creating windows directory
sudo mkdir /media/windows
If you want to mount /dev/hda1 is your windows partition you need to enter the following line in /etc/fstab file
/dev/ /media/ ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
You need to replace your partition and mount point with your details
Example
/dev/hda3 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
save and exit the file
If you want to mount as read only you need to enter the following line in /etc/fstabfile
/dev/hda3 /media/windows ntfs-3g ro,locale=en_US.utf8,uid=1000 0 0
If You want to change your locale option you need to run the following command in a terminal to know which one is supported by your system.
locale -a
Now if you want these new chnages to take effect there are two options one is you can simply reboot your machine and the second one is without rebooting you need to run the following commands
To unmount
sudo umount -a
To Mount
sudo mount -a
If you want to know more available options for ntfs-3g check man page
If you want to mount and unmount Windows partitions (FAT) manually, and allow all users to read and write
Follow the same procedure to get the list of your windows partitions,create a directory where do you want to mount and you do the following command from your teminal replace /dev/hda3,/media/windows/ to your environment
sudo mount /dev/hda3 /media/windows/ -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,umask=000
If you want to mount FAT partitions on boot-up to allow users to read and write use the following command in your /etc/fstab file you can see the above procedure how to take backup of fstab file before you do any changes
/dev/hda3 /media/windows vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0
The following constructive comment is forwarded.
I believe you omitted ‘/hda1.’ The correct entry for /hda1 would be
From:
/dev/ /media/ ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
To:
/dev/hda1 /media/ ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
Also, all of the above is relative to an IDE hard drive (/dev/hda3). If you are using SATA or SCSI (in lieu of /dev/hda3) you would have to use the ‘/dev/sdaX’ syntax. I put ‘X’ after sda because the value can be tricky to determine (It may not be /dev/sda3)and depends on other connected USB, SCSI, and SATA drives that are present on your system.
Very Good article!