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This tutorial will show you how to mount NTFS and FAT partitions in ubuntu
(1) How To mount a NTFS partion in ubuntu ?
For mounting NTFS we are going to use one small tool called NTFS-3G this is very powerfull and
simple tool.
The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write
support. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP file systems.
You need to edit the sources.list file using the following command
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and add the following repositories which is suitable for you
If you are running Ubuntu Dapper enter the following lines save and exit the file
deb http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/ dapper main main-all
deb http://ntfs-3g.sitesweetsite.info/ubuntu/ dapper main main-all
deb http://flomertens.keo.in/ubuntu/ dapper main main-all
If you are running Ubuntu Edgy replace dapper with edgy
Go to senaptic package manager and reload the repos and install ntfs-3g
Configuring ntfs-3g
Now you need to use the following command to determine all the available partitions
sudo fdisk -l
Now you need to configure your NTFS partitions in /etc/fstab file before doing any changes in
/etc/fstab file we will take a backup of this file using the following command (Highly Recommended)
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
Now you need to create a directory where do you mount your windows partitions in this example i ma
creating windows directory
sudo mkdir /media/windows
If you want to mount /dev/hda1 is your windows partition you need to enter the following line in
/etc/fstab file
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/dev/ /media/ ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
You need to replace your partition and mount point with your details
Example
/dev/hda3 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
save and exit the file
If you want to mount as read only you need to enter the following line in /etc/fstabfile
/dev/hda3 /media/windows ntfs-3g ro,locale=en_US.utf8,uid=1000 0 0
If You want to change your locale option you need to run the following command in a terminal to
know which one is supported by your system.
locale -a
Now if you want these new chnages to take effect there are two options one is you can simply reboot

your machine and the second one is without rebooting you need to run the following commands

To unmount
sudo umount -a partition-name

Mounting Fat Partition
1) Create a folder on the desktop suppose fatdrive (this is just a foldeer name )
2) Open the terminal type the following command
3) sudo -s
4) give the password
5) mount -a /dev/< fat partition to be mounted > <desktop folder name> -t vfat umask 0022
6) fat drive would be mounted

For more mounting details contact < rkglug@googlegroups.com>

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