Mounting NTFS in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

With the recent official release of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, users may be pleased to know that this version has a stable package to allow read-write operations on NTFS partitions; that is, Microsoft Windows journalising system. Windows partitioned are normally formatted as NTFS (default settings for Windows 2000, XP and Vista), and most Linux users run on dual boot systems. It does not take someone to have an online business degree to realise that the available of such application is likely to bring pleasure to everyone, now having the capability to both Read and Write on NTFS partitions.

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According to the development team, Ubuntu 7.04 has a stable access to NTFS paritions, unlike Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 6.10 releases that come with beta versions of NTFS drivers.

To get your Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn NTFS-ready, first enable the universe repository. Next, run the following command to install the NTFS driver:

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

Installation will simply be a breeze.