INFORMATICS

Mount an NTFS drive on CentOS 7

NTFS-3G

NTFS-3G is a stable, open source, GPL licensed, POSIX, read/write NTFS driver for Linux. It provides safe handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems.

NTFS-3G can create, remove, rename, move files, directories, hard links, and streams.

To mount an NTFS drive, start off by adding the remi-release and epel-release repos to your installation

Epel Repo: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
#yum install epel-release

Remi Repo: https://rpms.remirepo.net
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-7.rpm

How Do I Install NTFS-3G

Issue the following command to install

#yum install ntfs-3g
You also need the Fuse package but it’s usually pre-installed on CentOS, just verify if it’s installed or not

#yum install fuse

Load the module
#modprobe fuse
List the attached drives to find the NTFS drive to mount

#fdisk -l - show all drive

How Do I Find Out NTFS Partition Name?

Simply type the following command:
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

How Do I Mount /dev/sda1 NTFS Partition at /mnt/ntfs?

First, load the fuse driver, enter:
# modprobe fuse
Create a mount point, enter:
# mkdir /mnt/ntfs
To mount the ntfs partition, enter:
# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs
You can use regular Unix commands to copy or access the files:
$ df -h
$ mount
$ cd /mnt/ntfs
$ cp foo /tmp


How Do I Unmount NTFS Partition?

Type the following command:
# umount /mnt/ntfs