Although NTFS is a proprietary file system meant especially for Windows, Linux systems still have the ability to mount partitions and disks that have been formatted as NTFS. Thus a Linux user could read and write files to the partition as easily as they could with a more Linux-oriented file system.

Can Linux view NTFS?

You don’t need a special partition to “share” files; Linux can read and write NTFS (Windows) just fine.

How mount NTFS drive Ubuntu?

2 Answers

1. Now you have to find which partition is the NTFS one by using: sudo fdisk -l.
2. If your NTFS partition is for example /dev/sdb1 to mount it use: sudo mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/sdb1 /media/windows.
3. To unmount simply do: sudo umount /media/windows.