How to mount NTFS partitions in dual boot

[Naiki Muliaina]

Just made a post about monting drives / partitions in my blog

Open terminal then list your disks/partitions. Your windows partition/drive will have ntfs next to it. Mines /dev/sda3, so ill use sda3 later on. Yours might be different. Now make a folder to mount the windows partition into. Then use nano to open fstab.

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sudo fdisk -l
sudo mkdir /mnt/windows
sudo nano /etc/fstab

Add a new line to the fstab file and add the following, replacing sda3 with wherever your ntfs drive is located.

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/dev/sda3		/mnt/windows		ntfs	umask=000,defaults	0 0

Save it and close it then go back to terminal and type:

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mount -a

You should now be able to find your whole windows partition in the directory /mnt/windows.

[merlwiz79]

This would be easier.
Install ntfs-config:

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apt install ntfs-config

Then launch NTFS Configuration Tool found in the menu under Administration.
Now add a mount point by naming it.
Example: /dev/sdb1 could be named sdb1 and then you will see it change to /media/sdb1
Check the add box next to the ones you want to add.
Then Click apply and then OK.

Note: DON'T DO THIS FOR USB HARD DRIVES.