Need to access NTFS drive from linux

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Rastafaria : 06/12/01 03:00 AM : Incident created -   I have 2 hard drives. One for linux, and a second with 57 gigs of my important stuff, in NTFS format. I would like to be able to access this drive in linux, how do i accomplish this? how do you mount a point or whatever its called?
Linegod_7611 : 06/12/01 04:55 AM : Reply received -   At a console, as root, run 'diskdrake'. It is a fairly straight forward program, and you can call your mount point anything you want (like /nt-stuff).
uezeu : 06/12/01 08:24 AM : Reply received -   I had problems using diskdrake for my ntfs partition. I solved this by using a command line mount. As root go to the console and type: "mount -t ntfs /dev/(name of ntfs partition "hd??") /mnt/(name your ntfs mount folder)". Also if you want read and execute access for a non-root account add "-o umask=555" to the end of that line. You can NOT write to a ntfs drive, keep that in mind.
Rastafaria : 07/12/01 03:02 AM : Incident closed -   thanks

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