Enable ntfs format on debian or ubuntu with gparted

Posted by Dark Training on May 13, 2009 tags: | ubuntu | debian | linux

Gparted offers a way to format a drive as NTFS in Debian, but ntfs is greyed out when you first try to use the application. The reason is that you need to install the ntfsprogs package

apt-get install ntfsprogs

After that is installed and you restart gparted, you should now be able to format a drive as NTFS.