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Update your ntfs-3g installation and mount your NTFS partitions

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Problem

Using bittorrent on an NTFS partition, the process mount.ntfs-3g eats the processor. I noticed that Ubuntu had an old ntfs-3g driver, so I decided to install the new one manually from source. End result: it's working but nothing changed :( But let's sum up the steps.

Steps

Compile the new driver

Get the source of the current release from http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/, configure it, and make it. Don't install it yet.

Remove the old driver

Unmount the NTFS partitions, fire up Synaptic, type 'ntfs-3g' in the search box and remove all the related packages.

Install the new driver

Install the new driver as explained at http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/.

Mount the NTFS partitions

Follow the guide at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009 from Step 3 (Manual Configuration).

In short:

• Add /dev/<your partition> /media/<mount point> ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0 to your /etc/fstab.
• List of available locales: locale -a.
• Create the directory /media/<mount point>.
• sudo umount /dev/<your partition>
• sudo mount -a