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For centuries we have been struggling with this problem. Aham! well for years actually... The support for NTFS partitions had always been an issue. Often I get asked about it, the solution has been around for years too, but never stable and not really how we want it to be. Now for almost a year we had had a new driver called ntfs-3g which provides full read/write support for all NTFS partitions. (in lamemens terms, lets access your Windows partition from Linux)

For Ubuntu, follow the following instructions.

edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list at the end of the file add the following lines.

For Ubuntu EDGY :

deb http://flomertens.free.fr/ubuntu/ edgy main main-all
deb http://ntfs-3g.sitesweetsite.info/ubuntu/ edgy main main-all
deb http://flomertens.keo.in/ubuntu/ edgy main main-all

Note: For the users of 7.04, execute the following and can skip the next 3 instructions.

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g ntfs-config

Next execute the following code

wget http://flomertens.free.fr/ubuntu/givre_key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -


Then ...

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Next do the following

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

and...

gksu ntfs-config

Or you could just have launched it via the system tools menu.

If you are a Fedora user, just execute the following (assuming you have yum installed)

sudo yum install fuse fuse-libs ntfs-3g ntfsprogs ntfsprogs-gnomevfs