NTFS disk read-write?

[Erfa]

Hi!

I've reasently installed Kubuntu on a second partition of my primary hard drive. Now, in Windows XP (on the other partition) I use a second hard drive with an NTFS partition for storing images, music etc.

Now I would like to write more data to that partition in Linux (and Windows sometimes, since I still use both) but I havn't figured out how to mount it with write access for my user. I searched around forums and saw several people saying that it's risky to edit NTFS disks in Linux.

Is this true? If it is, is there another way to share a storing space between Windows and Linux somehow? If not, anyone know how to mount a NTFS disk with write access, I'd be glad to hear it.

Thanks,
Erfa

[adamsjw2]

Re: NTFS disk read-write?

erfa,
You will get differing opinions, but I along with some are hesitant to write to ntfs, especially files that are critical. It isn't perfect yet. If you have the room, do what many of us who dual boot do--create a Fat32 partition and read/write with both OS.
Sorry if this really didn't help,
Jim A.

[randcoop]

Re: NTFS disk read-write?

Install ntfs-3g and you should be able to access your Windows drive for read-write. There's a very good how-to here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009 (or this will point to a good how-to).

It is true that it used to be that Linux and NTFS didn't mix. But ntfs-3g has really changed all that.

[Erfa]

Re: NTFS disk read-write?

Thanks for the replies, that helped. I got ntfs-3g as I wanted to. However, I might consider converting the partition to FAT32 later on, if thats safer.

Anyone else have an opinion? How safe is ntfs-3g?

Again, thanks for you replies.
Erfa

[disher]

Re: NTFS disk read-write?

im using the opposite approach. my shared partition is ext3. to access the data partition from windows i had to install a driver for windows. works flawlessly for me.

http://www.fs-driver.org/

[a_hippie]

Re: NTFS disk read-write?

is it possible to convert an M$ partition from ntfs to fat32? I really didn't know that!

I'd sure be willing to do that on my old laptop. Might even speed up the poor little thing.

best regards

[Erfa]

Re: NTFS disk read-write?

is it possible to convert an M$ partition from ntfs to fat32? I really didn't know that

Er... I actually don't really know. I just assumed it was.

im using the opposite approach. my shared partition is ext3. to access the data partition from windows i had to install a driver for windows. works flawlessly for me.

I probably would have just that way if it wasn't NTFS from the start. Is it possible to convert from NTFS to ext3?

[Carol76]

Re: NTFS disk read-write?

Partition Magic for Windows enabled me to partition off a 20Gig section of my 200Gig drive for my partner to read/write to (via our LAN) as he was using Linux and I was on Windows XP - I formatted it as a FAT32 and we could both write to it and read from it without any problems.

I have now, however realised how carp Windows is, and I'm on Linux too rofl

[Volvo_Guy]

Re: NTFS disk read-write?

Wow, this is the first I've heard of anyone using Debian based software using ntfs-3g. I didn't think FUSE was integrated into Debian distros yet. Any success?

Will

[kubicle]

Re: NTFS disk read-write?

Wow, this is the first I've heard of anyone using Debian based software using ntfs-3g.  I didn't think FUSE was integrated into Debian distros yet.  Any success? 

AFAIK, FUSE can be added as a module...as the howto seems to indicate