As you might already know, thanks to NTFS-3g, it’s already possible to write into NTFS partitions (they used to be read-only partitions). Until now, the easiest (and safest) way to exchange data with Windows (for those of us who have a dual boot system) was using a FAT partition for read-write exchange.

Following one (among the many) tutorials I’ve seen, it’s rather easy to mount NTFS windows partitions and read & write on them with no problem at all.

However, I have an external USB 500Gb hard drive I’d like to access both from Linux and Windows. So I formatted it to NTFS to read and write lot of info on it (mostly multimedia). On Windows I had no problem (NTFS is windows native). But in Linux (Kubuntu), by default, the drive was mounted using the old (read-only) NTFS driver.

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Posted by Boriel as Linux, Tips & tricks, Computer Science at 9.03 pm

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