Mounting an External ntfs harddrive on Linux for writing

Note: In order to mount you need GNU yak/water-buffalo and apparently a Lion.

If you have a external harddrive the files system is fat32 or fat16 then you can read and write to it.

But if you have a ntfs file system you can only read-only from it because writing to it is some FOSS legal stuff. Ugh. Read-only file system warning is annoying!

But there is a solution which I will summary and when I have the time I'll write it more in detail.

Google ntfs-3g. You need that package to manually mount through /etc/fstab. Remember to create a mount directory I made one in /mnt (eg /mnt/window).

Then you mount -a command. But you need to find the name of your external hd which you can do with fdisk -l command and locate your harddrive by memory size if you're using usb it's sdb I believe.