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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This tip will work (or should do) for any Debian-based distro, including Ubuntu and Kubuntu.

First of all, you have to install Firefox 2.0. At the moment of posting this, the Ubuntu package has not been released yet, so you should go to download a.gz file from here, although I got an optimized version, Swiftfox, for which there exists a Debian package (Ubuntu & Kubuntu compatible) you can download from here.

Once this file is downloaded, open a console and chdir to the directory where you stored the file, and type:

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Posted by Boriel as Linux, Tips & tricks at 7.31 pm

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