Finally! Tux can read and delete data from NTFS

Yes, it's true. Now, say you have a USB-stick or maybe even a external HDD wich use NTFS filesystem. Before it was kinda like a rule to not write to a NTFS-hdd when you where in LINUX. This is about to change since the NTFS-3g driver are released.

NB! NTFS-3g is currently under BETA, but are reported being stable.

I took it for a spin, and got no problems - tough it was not as fast as I hoped.

Requirements: FUSE

Install FUSE.

$ wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fuse/fuse-2.5.3.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf fuse-2.5.3.tar.gz
$ cd fuse-2.5.3

$ ./configure
$ make

As root or sudo
$ sudo make install

Load the fuse-module (as root or sudo)
$ sudo modprobe fuse

Put 'fuse' in /etc/modules (depending on your distro) and /etc/modprobe.conf in Fedora (i should suppose).

THEN

Install ntfs-3g

$ wget http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfs-3g-20070714-BETA.tgz
$ tar -xvzf ntfs-3g-20070714-BETA.tgz

$ cd ntfs-3g-20070714-BETA

$ ./configure
$ make

As root or sudo
$ sudo make install

You should now be ready to hazzle around as much as you need/want too with your NTFS partition.

ENJOY! :)

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