Mounting NTFS Partition

To mount Microsoft Windows NTFS partition in Ubuntu, one can use set of packages called ntfs-3g and their relatives ntfsprogs.

As root,
$ aptitude search ntfs
p   libntfs-3g-dev                                                      - ntfs-3g filesystem in userspace (FUSE) library headers
i   libntfs-3g23                                                        - ntfs-3g filesystem in userspace (FUSE) library
p   libntfs-dev                                                         - library that provides common NTFS access functions (development files)
p   libntfs-gnomevfs                                                    - NTFS GNOME virtual filesystem module
p   libntfs10                                                           - library that provides common NTFS access functions
i   ntfs-3g                                                             - read-write NTFS driver for FUSE
p   ntfs-config                                                         - Enable/disable write support for any NTFS devices
i   ntfsdoc                                                             - documentation about NTFS partitions format
i   ntfsprogs                                                           - tools for doing neat things in NTFS partitions from Linux

To use NTFS partition, one must install ntfs-3g, libntfs10 and optionally if one intends to needs to fix NTFS partition, ntfsprogs is required. One can install them by the following command

As root,
$ aptitude install ntfs-3g ntfsprogs libntfs10

$ mount -o defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hdb3 /mnt/win_partition (where /dev/hdb3 and /mnt/win_partition *must* exist before mounting and '-o' denotes option. More info in the mount(8) man page).

Or one can also install ntfs-3g and others through other graphical package managers such as synaptic.