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We have seen that it is possible to easily mount an NTFS disk in CentOS 7 Linux once the ntfs-3g package has been installed which provides us with the necessary drivers.TestDisk is OpenSource software and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL v2+). If there are errors that happen during boot, you may be left with a system that does not properly boot so it’s important to test first. Before performing a reboot, it is recommended to first run the ‘mount -a’ command and confirm that the disk mounts without errors.
Once this configuration has been added, the NTFS disk should mount automatically on system boot. This will mount the disk to the /ntfs directory. Below is an example of the entry that I have placed into my fstab file. We can create an entry in the /etc/fstab file so that our NTFS disk will automatically mount on system boot. ~]# df -h /windows/įilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted onĪt this point you should be able to read and write data on the mounted NTFS disk. We can confirm that the NTFS disk is now seen as mounted by the operating system. We can now successfully perform the mount without any errors. In my Debian 8 installation it was already available so I was able to mount NTFS without any problems.
Otherwise if you’re using Ubuntu/Debian, you should just be able to run ‘apt-get install ntfs-3g’ straight away. Now we should be able to install the ntfs-3g package from the EPEL repository. This package comes from EPEL if you’re using CentOS/RHEL, so if you have not yet configured your system to use the EPEL repository, run the following command. In order to perform the mount, we need to install the ntfs-3g package, which is a Linux NTFS userspace driver.
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes We can see the primary disk for the Linux system /dev/sda, while /dev/sdb is our 1GB NTFS disk which has the /dev/sdb1 NTFS partition. When we run ‘fdisk -l’ we can see that the disk is recognized (after a system reboot), however it is not yet mounted for us to access the data. In this example I have attached the VMDK file from a Windows based virtual machine to a CentOS 7 Linux virtual machine.
The New Technology File System (NTFS) is a proprietary file system created by Microsoft and is used extensively in Microsoft’s Windows operating systems.īy default most Linux distributions are not able to mount NTFS, however it is possible to install a driver that allows us to do this so that we can read and write data to an NTFS disk.