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In 11.10 the ability to write to NTFS drives was removed. There are ways around this, like ntfs-config, which mounts the selected drives as r/w, but I'm looking for a more permanent solution. I have also tried enabling it in the kernel (when compiling) but that doesn't seem to do anything.

tl:dr I want for NTFS drives (including removable ones) to be mounted r/w instead of r/o (from gnome-shell and nautilus), like in 10.10 and 11.04

NRoach44
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I use NTFS-config and it mounts all me external and internal drives with write capabilities

just run this in commandline after installing ntfs-config

sudo mkdir -p /etc/hal/fdi/policy

this will make ntfs config run and u can enable read write

sarvesh.lad
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am posting the fstab entry for ntfs on my system ...

am able to write Ubuntu 11.10 i386 ...

# /media/NTFS was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=4E842157842142B7 /media/NTFS     ntfs    defaults,umask=007,gid=46                0       0
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joe1983
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I had the same issue. resolved by installing ntfs-config using :

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

then

sudo mkdir -p /etc/hal/fdi/policy

I had a problem of dependencies when I used :

sudo aptitude install ntfs-config Don't use aptitude but apt-get

  • Writing in NTFS partition is not possible unless the package ntfs-3g is installed (this latter was removed in ubuntu 11.10 while keeping ntfsprogs instead)
Hanynowsky
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