setting up read/write for NTFS partition in Ubuntu Feisty

well, for safety (and sanity's) sake, I'm going to backup all my "valuable" files on my XP partition, which is an NTFS partition. Unfortunately, in Feisty NTFS partitions are not mounted (readable), nor are they writable, even if you do mount them. To fix this problem I did a little research on the Ubuntu Forums and came up with a handy little program.

If you are running Ubuntu Feisty (that is, version 7.04), then all you have to do is run this command (I think you have to have your third-party and multiverse repositories enabled):

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

then all you do is run "ntfs-config" in the terminal and follow the prompts. It should automatically detect your NTFS drives, all you have to do is give 'em a name and then check a box saying you do want to enable read/write on 'em. Worked like a charm.

Here's the forum post I got the program from.

program alternatives

well, in my search for a linux replacement for Dreamweaver (if ya know of one, please let me know!) I came across a couple of great resources. One is this page which lists linux/open source alternatives to popular windows programs. This is an awesome way to see what is out there, and the list seems to be pretty up to date.

and I also found this, which is a great guide to getting things started and up and running on Ubuntu Feisty. I don't think I've linked to this before, but I wanted to make sure I had it on here.