Access NTFS partition from Linux

The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS driver for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, and Haiku.

It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista file systems.

Make sure that the basic Linux development tools and the full FUSE package is already installed correctly on the computer.

Downlaod NTFS-3G from here.

Installation Steps:
./configure
make
make install # or 'sudo make install' if you aren't root


mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows


You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by adding the following:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

line to the end of the /etc/fstab file:

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