Frequent Question: Can Ubuntu Read Ntfs Drives?
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Yes, Ubuntu supports read & write to NTFS without any problem. You can read all the Microsoft Office docs in Ubuntu using Libreoffice or Openoffice etc. You can have some issues with text format because of default fonts etc.

Can NTFS be used on Ubuntu?

The userspace ntfs-3g driver now allows Linux-based systems to read from and write to NTFS formatted partitions. The ntfs-3g driver is pre-installed in all recent versions of Ubuntu and healthy NTFS devices should work out of the box without further configuration.

Can Linux read NTFS drives?

You don’t need a special partition to “share” files; Linux can read and write NTFS (Windows) just fine. On the other hand, consider the following alternatives if you want to create a “shared” partition: Yes, it is very convenient to have a NTFS partition to share between Ubuntu and Windows.

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