tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034511040188614232011-07-08T03:21:50.644-07:00Chris Munrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15389641242338894353noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503451104018861423.post-87889106239640946592010-01-20T03:30:00.000-08:002010-01-20T04:30:41.597-08:00I bought a 1TB external hard drive by seagate to backup my MacBook and linux workstation.<br /><br />Problem is it not supported in linux as it comes formatted in ntfs, so although I could read files, I could not write them! Argggh!<br /><br />Luckily some googling turns up a solution<br /><br /><a href="http://www.linuxconfig.org/How_to_mount_partition_with_ntfs_file_system_and_read_write_access"></a><br /><br />Now my SUSE installation has ntfs-3g installed but not fuse, but I got that from using the online repository. <br />Then create a mount directory /mnt/ntfs and mount using the terminal commands<br /><br /> sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 ./ntfs/ <br /><br />There seem to be issues with the device automatically mounting do /media (in which case unmount it from there first), but eventually it is possible...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/503451104018861423-8788910623964094659?l=cjmunro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Chris Munrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15389641242338894353noreply@blogger.com0