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How I Got NTFS To Work In Debian Linux

by burdicda

January 18, 2008

I am up and running everything in Pure Debian now and the last task to master was getting an NTFS partition to behave. Here's how I did it:

  1. Add the repository:
    deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
  2. apt-get install debian-backports-keyring
    or
    gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 16BA136C
    gpg --export | apt-key add -
  3. Update sources.list with apt-get update
  4. Force the latest package of libfuse2.
  5. Force the latest package of fuse-utils.
  6. Install ntfs-3g.
  7. As root, chmod u+s /usr/bin/ntfs-3g
  8. Add the following long line entry into fstab:
    /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfspartitionname users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002 0 0
    (substitute your NTFS partition's address for "hda1" and whatever you want it to be called for "ntfspartitionname".
  9. Run KUser and add your user name to the "fuse" group.
  10. Reboot.

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