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What is most reliable commercial or freeware way to enable Ubuntu read/write NTFS partition? The data is sensitive and I wouldn't like it to be corrupted

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ntfs-3g supports read/write quite well.

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  • quite well means reliable?
    – Pablo
    Commented Aug 19, 2010 at 6:24
  • I have used it only occasionally (just to copy/move files to/from ntfs partition), but I haven't used any advanced things (ACL, or changed permissions). If you take a look at ntfs-3g-s homepage, you can see that they mention that it's stable. Homepage address is: tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download
    – plaes
    Commented Aug 19, 2010 at 6:30
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    That's my interpretation. I've never had any problems with NTFS and Ubuntu.
    – James
    Commented Aug 19, 2010 at 6:30
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Tuxera offers a commercial driver and guarantees compatibility with Windows.

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ntfs-3g did not work in my case, for issues with enabling write permissions to the NTFS formatted drive/partition, the below is a simple solution that may help:

  1. Determine the path to the drive once mounted, run the below and find path of the drive relative to /dev/sd. The mounted path may be displayed as /media/username/drivename - do not use this path.

    sudo fdisk -l

  2. The below will enable the OS to write to the drive

    sudo ntfsfix /dev/sd

Credits to the creator of this video, as of now the above was tested and works on Ubuntu 18.04 & 18.10.

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