Posted on 03/27/2019 4:04:19 AM PDT by ShadowAce
This tutorial will show you how to mount an NTFS drive ina read/write mode on CentOS and other RHEL based Linux operating systems with ntfs-3g driver. NTFS-3G is a stable Open Source NTFS driver that supports reading and writing to NTFS drives on Linux and other operating systems.
The ntfs-3g driver is available in the EPEL repository. The first step is to install and activate EPEL on your Linux system.
Run the following command as root user on the shell to enable the EPEL repository.
yum install epel-releaseEPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a set of additional high quality packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL).
Then we have to install the ntfs-3g package with yum.
yum install ntfs-3gOnce installed, we create a directory where the NTFS drive shall be mounted:
mkdir /mnt/winNow we can mount the NTFS partition by running this command:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/winIn this example, my NTFS partition is the device /dev/sdb1. You have to replace that with the device name of your NTFS partition.
The mount point will exist until reboot or until you unmount it with:
umount /mnt/winTo mount the NTFS partition permanently, add the following line to the /etc/fstab file.
Open /etc/fstab with an editor:
nano /etc/fstabAnd add the line:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/win ntfs-3g defaults 0 0Again, replace /dev/sdb1 with the device name that matches your setup. Now your Linux system will mount the NTFS drive automatically at boot time.
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I was under the impression this was a big No No. That there is a massive risk of FS corruption.
However, the driver has improved over the past few years and it is now quite safe.
I have booted a Windows Vista laptop for years with a Linux Mint memory stick and never had problems writing to a NTFS partition. Is there some newer version of NTFS that is incompatible?
No—the NTFS issue was pre-Vista
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