[GRLUG] <snip> Mount NTFS partition

[Godwin]

John,

Generally, on a Debian (ahem, Ubuntu) system you can prepare for, and
mount an NTFS partition as such...

[lola at davinci]# apt-get install ntfs-3g
...
...
[lola at davinci]# ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfsdrive

The first command (as root) will install the "ntfs-3g, libfuse"
packages and dependencies.  The second command will allow you to mount
an NTFS partition read/write on the mount point "/mnt/ntfsdrive",
given that it is the first partition of the Master drive of your
Primary IDE controller (hda1).  If you have a SATA drive, it maybe
"sda1".  Use this after a fresh reboot to see what drives/partitions
you have:

[lola at davinci]# dmesg | grep '[hs]d[abcdefg]'

You should see things like hda1, hdc1, sda1 or the like (depending on
your motherboard/drive configuration).  In my case, I see this:

[   50.772016] hda: max request size: 512KiB
[   50.787907] hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache,
CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(33)
[   50.789957] hda: cache flushes supported
[   50.790027]  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3 hda4

And here's the entry in my "/etc/fstab" file:

/dev/hda1 /WinXP ntfs-3g defaults,force 0 0

cheers,
G-

On Feb 3, 2008 11:17 PM, John Harig <radiodurans at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'd like to see some discussion on virtualization,
> virtualbox, vmware . . . etc.  Also I'm having
> difficulty getting fuse to mount read and write an
> ntfs disk on my laptop if someone wants to help with
> that :).  Then I could start testing the
> virtualization stuff.
>
>
>
> --- Nick <mailtonick at gmail.com> wrote:



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