![]() ![]() ![]() Now you’re good to go! You should be able to access your external drive through the mount point you created. Now we can mount our drive point to our mount point sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/hdd1 Once we have that, we need to create our mount point, this can be what or where ever you want sudo mkdir /media/hdd1 Here we want to note the drive point in our case: /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 1 243201 1953512001 7 HPFS/NTFS Next, we need to find the usb drive point that we want to mount sudo fdisk -l | grep NTFS The drive point is where the external drive will be located and the mount point is where we’d like to access it for regular usage.įirst we need to install the read/write ntfs package sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g There are two things you will need to note throughout this tutorial: drive point and mount point. This is particularly handy if you’re trying to use a Windows formatted external drive on Ubuntu. This post if for anyone looking to mount an external NTFS drive with read and write capability. ![]()
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