Installing ntfs-3g for NTFS partition Read/Write/Execute support

NTFS-3G: is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS driver for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, and Haiku. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista file systems. Most POSIX file system operations are supported, with the exception of full file ownership and access right support.

The purpose of the project is to develop, continuously quality test and support a trustable, feature rich and high performance solution for hardware platforms and operating systems whose users need to reliably interoperate with NTFS. Besides this practical goal, the project also aims to explore the limits of a hybrid, kernel/user space file system driver approach. Performance, reliability and feature richness per invested effort are being examined.

The driver is in STABLE status since February 2007, after 12 years in development.

I installed ntfs-3g on Debian Etch useing this method:

            apt-get remove libfuse2 fuse-utils

            wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/n/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g_1.328-2_i386.deb
            wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/n/ntfs-3g/libntfs-3g0_1.328-2_i386.deb
            wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.6.3-2_i386.deb
            wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.6.3-2_i386.deb

            dpkg -i libfuse2_2.6.3-2_i386.deb fuse-utils_2.6.3-2_i386.deb libntfs-3g0_1.328-2_i386.deb
            dpkg -i ntfs-3g_1.328-2_i386.deb

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