Body of Knowledge

On Ubuntu (and in general) ntfs mount with write permissons is still a big issue. Here is a simple cookbook for NTFS read/write:

1. Add the folowing line to your sources.list file

# deb http://flomertens.keo.in/ubuntu/ dapper main

2. Add the repository key be able to download the packages

# wget http://flomertens.keo.in/ubuntu/givre_key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

# sudo apt-get && sudo apt-get upgrade

3. Install the package

# sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

4. Add your ntfs partition

# sudo pico fstab

/dev/partition /media/mount_point ntfs-3g defaults,utf8 0 0

Voilá mount or remount the drive and you have a ntfs partition writable. valid also for future removable ntfs drives.

Useful links:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ntfs-3g

http://ubuntuos.wordpress.com/2006/08/02/howto-write-to-windows-ntfs-drive-from-ubuntu-ntfs-3g/