Write to NTFS partitions on Fedora
Writing to NTFS partitions under Linux has been a real pain, if possible at all, for quite a long time. With a dual-boot Linux and Windows system, you can end up not being able to exchange files without a lot of trickery and special programs.
Thankfully, things have moved on since then and with the help of a couple of bits of software, it’s now really easy to install FUSE (Filesystem in User Space) and the new NTFS 3G driver and write (safely and quickly) to NTFS partitions.
I reported on this a while back when the drivers for NTFS were still in beta, and in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to get up and running on Fedora Core (but the instructions should be fairly generic). Whereas last time we used a GUI application, today I’m going to use the geekier and more difficult, but more universal, command-line way.
On my Fedora Core 6 system, installing the needed software is as simple as heading to a terminal and doing the following:
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