[olug] NTFS under Kubuntu 7.04

Bill Eberly imjustabill at gmail.com
Sat Aug 4 15:14:34 UTC 2007


Are you trying to use the generic ntfs driver or ntfs-3g? If you just plug
in your external driver under linux, you can only read by default.

On 8/4/07, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 04 August 2007 14:15, Joe Gulizia wrote:
> > I have an external hard drive (NTFS format) that I'd
> > like to read and write to with Kubuntu 7.04.  Right
> > now permissions are not allowing this.  Should I wipe
> > and re-format as VFAT?.  Needs to be used as dual boot
> > for now.
> >
> > How do I do this in Win XP?  It keeps wanting to
> > re-format as NTFS.
>
> Or you could always format it ext3 and use the Windows ext3 driver...
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