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Mount and Access NTFS Partition

NTFS-3G is an open source cross-platform implementation of the Microsoft Windows NTFS file system with read-write support. NTFS-3G often uses the FUSE file system interface, so it can run unmodified on many different operating systems. It is runnable on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, and Mac OS X.

On Ubuntu / Debian

Usage

If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume can be mounted in read-write mode for everybody as follows. Unmount the volume if it had already been mounted, replace /dev/sda1 and /mnt/windows, if needed.

Please see the NTFS-3G Manual for more options and examples.

You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by adding the following line to the end of the /etc/fstab file:

mount your /tmp partition with the noexec,nosuid options, and mount the /home partition with the nosuid option.

t install time, the easiest thing to do is to mount your /tmp partition with the noexec,nosuid options, and mount the /home partition with the nosuid option. This is done in your /etc/fstab and requires those paths to exist as partitions, and not just as subdirectories of /. If you’re unsure, type:

To get a listing of your partitions and their current mounting options. Use google for more information on these mounting options. Be very careful when editing your /etc/fstab, as any errors could prevent your system from starting up. Note that you must not have “nosuid,noexec” for / or /usr, as those partitions have suid binaries normally (su, passwd, etc).

Edit the fstab file vi /etc/fstab and change it depending on your needs. For example:

To read:

nosuid, Meaning do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take effect, nodev, do not interpret character or block special devices on this file system partition, noexec, do not allow execution of any binaries on the mounted file system.

Difference between ‘mount’ and ‘mount -a’

There is a slight difference between the commands - “mount” and “mount -a”.

1. When you type “mount”, it will display the output of the file “/etc/mtab”.

For example,

The content of the file “/etc/mtab” is:

2. When you type the command “mount -a”, it will take the output of the file “/etc/fstab”.

Note: The file “/etc/mtab” has the entries of temporary partitions such as USB drive. But, the file “/etc/fstab” has the entries of mounted partitions in the server.

Mount windows drive to linux filesystem

Step 1: Take a Linux system. Install samba in your Linux system and start the service.

Step 2: Create a directory in Linux to which you will be mounting the files. Usually a subdirectory in “/mnt”

Step 3: Goto windows system. Share the drive/folder in windows system which you want to mount to Linux. Make sure that the drive/folder you are going to share is having the share permission for administrator.

Step 4: Go back to Linux system. Type the following command,

Step 5: Go to the directory you have made in Linux for mounting. Now you can see all the contents in windows drive/folder in that directory.

ISCSI mount on boot

Steps to mount ISCSI on boot:

You can see the ISCSI drive while issuing “fdisk -l”. Let it be /dev/sdb1

Consider that you want it to mount over /vz partition.

Note:
ISCSI drives should be mounted with “_netdev” mount option.

“netfs” is the daemon which would mount the filesystems with “_netdev” mount option.