Silly Noob Question

[crito]

I recently moved from Ubuntu to Debian. My setup is a Dell laptop with an external hard drive. Windows is on the internal drive, and the external drive is partitioned with Linux on one side and NTFS on the other. I keep multimedia type files there, photos, music, etc on the NTFS side.

With Ubuntu a GUI was placed on my desktop to access the NTFS partition. With Deb I don't have the proper permissions. Which is fine, I kind of lke it this way from a security standpoint. My question is how to access this partition.

My file system looks like this:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb7 56G 2.1G 51G 4% /
tmpfs 1015M 0 1015M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 104K 9.9M 2% /dev
tmpfs 1015M 0 1015M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2 92M 24M 64M 27% /boot
/dev/sdb5 315G 56G 259G 18% /media/usb1


with /dev/sdb5 being the NTFS partition I want to access.


So how do I get into sdb5?

No such thing as a stupid question, right?

[TheN00b]

I'm kinda a newb myself(hence the name). But you could make a directory [for example: mkdir NTFSdrive]
Then Mount /dev/sdb5 /NTFSdrive -t ntfs
Or simply Mount whatyourmounting whereyourmountingittoo -t[command meaning type] ntfs[the filesystem]

For more info: Man mount

[unchiujar]

I haven't used Debian, but don't you have to install something like this to be able to use NTFS partitions ?

[Crito4]

So I guess every time I forget this guy stole my handle he gets an email with my IP address. That's just great...

[jledhead]

I haven't used Debian, but don't you have to install something like this to be able to use NTFS partitions ?

yes, but Debian stable doesn't have ntfs-3g, so debian stable will not be able to write safely to ntfs, although it can read it out of the box.

To easily install ntfs-3g you should upgrade to testing and you can then apt-get it