The best thing about Ubuntu linux is it’s ability to read and write data on a Windows based NTFS partitions. This has been defaulted ever since the release of Ubuntu 8.04 with inbuilt support for NTFS read and write. And if you have Ubuntu installed as a multiboot along with a windows installation, it is must to have NTFS drive with read/write support enabled to access data easily.
Though there is support for NTFS drives, they doesn’t get mounted automatically during the startup. You either need to mount it from Disk Utility or by just opening the drive. So to over come this issue and get your NTFS drives auto-mounted during the startup, you must install “NTFS Configuration Tool.”
To install NTFS Configuration Tool, open your Terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install ntfs-config
After it’s finished downloading and installing, go to System > Administration > NTFS Configuration Tool
Enter the password if it prompts. then tick “Enable write support for internal device” and choose the drives you want to get auto-mounted during startup. Click on close and you are done.
Now every time when you boot into you Ubuntu, you will have all your NTFS drives auto-mounted during the startup.
I’d prefer the good ‘ol fstab way.
echo ‘/dev/sdxx /mountpoint ntfs defaults 0 0′>>/etc/fstab
There, done!
Yes. In fact I use the same method as I use Arch, but Ubuntu (even though I don’t like it much) has done one thing very well and that is to move more people to Linux. For newbies this method is good, they will eventually shift to the fstab and mtab method.
You are no longer a noob Abhinandh – you are somewhere in-between the 2
lol
“Enable write support for internal device” option is disabled in my Ubuntu, how can I enable it?
thanks a lot bro