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SBDavid
Oct 7th, 2011

Mount and Access NTFS Partition

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.

yum install ntfs-3g

On Ubuntu / Debian

ubuntu@server3:~$ apt-cache search ntfs-3g
libntfs-3g-dev - ntfs-3g filesystem in userspace (FUSE) library headers
libntfs-3g79 - ntfs-3g filesystem in userspace (FUSE) library
ntfs-3g - read-write NTFS driver for FUSE
ntfs-config - Enable/disable write support for any NTFS devices

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.

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

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:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0