How can I get access to a Windows file system

By default, Linux supports direct read/write access to FAT16 and FAT32 file system that Microsoft Windows uses, but not to an NTFS file system.

To access an NTFS file system on Linux.

Install a third party software named kernel-module-ntfs. We can get the rpm package from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/files

The kernel-ntfs kernel module will be load automatically by default when server reboot next time. Then you can mount your ntfs file system manually. We can load the kernel module by modprobe and use lsmod to confirm it’s installed

modprobe kernel-ntfs
lsmod | grep ntfs

Install a third party software named ntfs-3g and fuse.

Please access http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ to get ntfs-3g and fuse.

NTFS-3G is a stable, read/write NTFS driver for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX, Haiku, and other operating systems. It provides safe handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems.

After successfully install, you can run command such as:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /mnt

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