I have upgraded to Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn for a week without problem. However, today is the first chance that I have to mount external HDD via USB. The external storage is automatically mounted via pmount by internal ntfs driver bundled with linux kernel. As a result, I was unable to make any changes to the device. In Edgy, I installed ntfs-3g using packages from external repositories. Anyway, Feisty provides more configurable approach.

ntfs-config was introduced in Feisty Fawn. In other words, you are able to choose which kind of devices should be automatically mounted using ntfs-3g. Currently there are 2 options; internal or external. To install ntfs-config, just run below command.

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g ntfs-config

Then run ntfs-config to enable device types for ntfs-3g. That's all! You don't need to reboot. Just plug your devices in the USB ports again.

Tags: ubuntu, feisty fawn, ntfs-3g, ntfs-config