Mounting NTFS partitions in Linux

[TheRealPeabody]

Does anyone know how to mount NTFS partitions in Limux (I'm using LM 8)? I've tried using the terminal command line and Linuxconf, but to no avail. It seems to support every other conceivable format, so why not NTFS?

Someone in another thread did supply a link to an article on a web site, but it didn't say how to do it. Just that NTFS support was still poor but getting better.

Cheers

 

[PrincessGuard]

Did you re-compile your kernel with NTFS support? The Linux kernel has supported NTFS (read-only) since version 2.2 and should have write support by now.

If by LM8 you mean Mandrake Linux 8, then read-only NTFS support is already built into the default kernels. So just do a mount -t ntfs /dev/<your NTFS partition> /<your mountpoint>.

 

[Elledan]

Note of caution: since NTFS support in Linux is still really poor, it is recommended that you only read from NTFS partitions and do NOT, I repeat, do not write to NTFS partitions. This will most likely lead to corruption of data since writing to NTFS is still highly experimental.

 

[Bremen]

Well as I understand it Linux can read and write to a NTFS just fine. The problems arise when windows tries to read from a fs written to by linux :0)

 

[MGMorden]

Why write to NTFS though if you can't read them for Windows? If you just want a general purpose fs then Linux has much better support for other types of filesystems (ext2/3, ReiserFS, etc).