[Solved] Mount NTFS Drive to be able to read/write

[mharrison]

Like the subject says, I have an 80 gig drive formatted as NTFS that I use to store some files on so my wife can access them on her XP machine.

Currently I have the following in my /etc/fstab for the drive

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/dev/hdb1    /media/Data    ntfs    umask=0,nls=utf8 0 0

Any suggestions on what I can modify so I can read and write to it with my user account? I did some Google searching, but nothing seems to pan out.
Thanks!

[4D696B65]

In order to write to ntfs from linux you need to install ntfs-3g.

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aptitude install ntfs-3g

Then chenge the ntfs in your fstab to ntfs-3g.
My line looks like this

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/dev/sda2    /media/sda2   ntfs-3g   defaults,locale=en_CA.UTF-8   0   0

[mharrison]

Thanks, that did the trick.