Mounting NTFS partition on DEBIAN in RW mode

FIRST METHOD

The first and the best method to mount a NTFS partition on DEBIAN in

RW mode is to use the application called "ntfs-3g"

All you need to follow the steps prescribed below:

1.] First download the following two binaries:

ntfs-3g

libntfs-3g

2.] Then install the dependencies if at all there are using following command:

#sudo apt-get install fuse-utils libfuse2

P.S: There should not be any dependency in Debian 4.0 (Etch) but to be

on the safer side verify it using above command .

3.] Finally you can install ntfs-3g (using the 2 Debian packages you

just downloaded) using:

#sudo dpkg -i libntfs-3g0_0.0.0+20061031-6_i386.deb

#sudo dpkg -i ntfs-3g_0.0.0+20061031-6_i386.deb

4.] To use the utility ntfs-3g, execute #man ntfs-3g and understand

the command and it's options.

SECOND METHOD

You can also mount the NTFS partition by placing following entry in /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1 /windows ntfs rw,users,umask=022 0 0

However I am not being able to write over the NTFS partition from

Linux box using second method