Writing on NTFS Partitions

Support for NTFS in GNU/Linux was for a few years, read only, but in the actuality we can write on this, so here i leave a litle guide, how i gave support to write in partition NTSF under openSUSE 10.2.

Install NTFS write support We need add this repositorie or search and download the packages of internet.

In order we will install the following packages:

* fuse
* ntfs-3g

Mount NTFS partition

Now edit the file /etc/fstab and add an entry, the filesystem will be mounted automatically at boot, now define the mount point directory (i.e. /mnt/C)

/dev/sda1 /mnt/C ntfs-3g user,users,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0

if you want mount a NTFS partition manually, we will use the ntfs-3g command especifying the disk partition as NTFS

Cameron:# ntfs-3g -o ro,gid=users,umask=0002 /dev/sda1 /mnt/C

If you can't find the ntfs-3g package in the repositories, try search and download the source from web site

* FUSE http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse
* NTFS-3G http://www.ntfs-3g.org/