Steps To Mount NTFS Partition In RHEL and CentOS version 5 or 6

• 20 September 2021
• in: Tutorials

The first step for enabling NTFS Support for the CentOS Linux / RHEL edition 5.x and 6.x is to install the EPEL repository onto the server.
Use the command as follow to install EPEL repository in CentOS or RHEL versions:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

What is NTFS-3G ?

NTFS-3G permits you to handle NTFS file systems of Windows OS variants with the required safety. Its an open supply POSIX read/write NTFS for your Linux operating system installations.
It offers the potential to create, delete, rename, move files, directories, hard links, and streams. It additionally offers the ability to webmasters with read and write normal and transparently compressed files, that includes streams and distributed files. Special files like the symbolic links, devices and FIFOs, ACL, extended attributes are often simply handled.

What is the process to Install NTFS-3G ?

You must be logged in as Root for the below command to work :

# yum install ntfs-3g

Checking the Name of an NTFS Partition

Entering the below commands would help you determine the name of an NTFS partition :
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Steps to Mount /dev/sda1 NTFS Partition at /mnt/ntfs

It is essential to load the fuse driver. The below command should help you do that :
# modprobe fuse

Now using the below command you must build a mount point:
# mkdir /mnt/ntfs

The following command would help you with mounting the ntfs partition :
# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs

Command for Unmounting the NTFS Partition

# umount /mnt/ntfs