With the massive wave of migration of Windows users to the Linux world, many doubt whether they can get to keep the two systems and to access their data by Linux partition. Absolutely! Linux is not restricted only to access your file systems, FAT partitions type he has access to much time, but NTFS partitions of Windows XP took a little the emergence of a reliable driver with support for both reading and writing to files. The driver who became a standard for access to partition with NTFS file system is NTFS-3g, but need not worry because if you use Ubuntu 8.04 already installed by default. But the big problem is that despite the mounting of NTFS partitions be done in only one click, many users need to mount them (leaving them accessible) during the boot. This becomes important when you keep such a library of media or even a wallpaper on the NTFS partition and would like the system already had access to these files soon on system boot. Well to do this simply install and configure the utility ntfs-config. In a terminal run:
$ Sudo aptitude install ntfs-config For more details about other ways of installing packages in Ubuntu see the documentation on how to install everything in Ubuntu [1].
Once installed the package we will configure it from the menu "Applications" -> "System Tools" -> "Tool Set NTFS". In the window configuration enable the media to write for external device (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Enabling support for writing to NTFS external device
Click "OK" and then log back into the menu "Applications" -> "System Tools" -> "Tool Set NTFS", this time open another screen. The screen shown in Figure 2 below is self-explanatory, clicking (selecting) the partition detected and inform a name for the mount point, for example "Data". It is important to note that this name is just a name that is not necessary to inform the way, as a result error (Figure 3). Another important detail is that the partition must be dismantled.
Figure 2: Select partition and informs a name for the point of assembly
Figure 3: Name the point of assembly invalid.
[1] - http://www.guiaubuntupt.org/wiki/index.php?title=Como_instalar_tudo_em_Ubuntu
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Hello wasare ... I could not continue his tutorial because when the window for activation of the use of external HD was shown I check the box available. However, when you click again to open the ntfs-config, the new window does not appear .. appears the same window of activation in the box marked ..
any solution to this?
I found! ... To the second window is presented it is necessary for the desired ntfs partition is dismantled ...
hugs
Bill,
Thanks for the tip, I had not noticed this detail because I only wanted to mount a partition that obviously was still disassembled, hehehe ....
By mounting the partition but activating the first option, not the second. And the folders that contain accented characters in the name does not appear, I am not finding the solution for this anywhere.
Minho,
with respect to the first or second option be functional am able to bet that your hard drive is IDE. In my case it was SATA so he recognizes as / dev / sdX, equal to the pen drive, so treat it as externally.
on the problem of names with accents on the NTFS partition the only suggestion I have is you try to manually mount the partition (as root) or access it by the terminal, trying to view these files even if they show strange characters in the name. Then use a script that converts the names of files / directories for names with accents without accents. To do that use the zzarrumanome included in the functions of ZZ Aurelius (http://funcoeszz.net), but do becape before.
Another option would you like me do not have any NTFS partition and use Windows only when strictly necessary in virtualizing environment (with VirtualBox, for example).
q skirt very nice
I know that 's a little late but just now I saw this topic. My problem is the same but that the partition is not dismantled me the second option appears ... use the Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy (I do not know whether it is relevant)
sometimes the external disk mounts with naturalness but sometimes not mount at all. I do not know how I get my external disk to work correctly.
any idea
I thank all
Paul,
His partition is NTFS? Your disc is exerno? as well? You try to access the system with which user? is that user created during installation?
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