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How to Mount NTFS File system in RHEL/Centos 7

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Descrption

According to Wikipedia , NTFS-File developed by Microsoft . NTFS is s supported in other desktop and Server OS as well Linux & BSD have a free open source NTFS driver called NTFS-3g with both read and write functionality. In Mac-os comes with only read option for NTFS,write option was disabled because it was unstable.

Pre-requrities

Wget(World Wide Web Get)

EPEL Repository

NTFS-3g

NTFS progs

In this tutorial am using RHEL-7 ,before need update all package & repository.

Steps

1. Configure Wget in Server. Wget is a utility and open source,it’s retrived the data using from HTTP,HTTPS & FTP Protocols.

[root@ip-172-31-12-123 ~]# yum install wget -y

  1. To download latest packages using wget

    [root@ip-172-31-12-123 ~]# wget dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-..

  2. Installing NTFS-3g & NTFSprogs. It Enable NTFS support file managers.

    [root@ip-172-31-12-123 ~]# yum install ntfs-3g -y

    [root@ip-172-31-12-123 ~]# yum install ntfsprogs -y

  3. Once both packages are configures create a mount directory to plan for NTFS partion disk.

    [root@ip-172-31-12-123 ~]#mkdir /winntfs

  4. Here listing out my device

    [root@ip-172-31-12-123 ~]# lsblk

    NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT

    xvda 202:0 0 10G 0 disk

    ├─xvda1 202:1 0 1M 0 part

    └─xvda2 202:2 0 10G 0 part /

    xvdf 202:80 0 2G 0 disk

    ├─xvdf1 202:81 0 32M 0 part

    └─xvdf2 202:82 0 2G 0 part

  5. [root@ip-172-31-12-123 ~]# lsblk -f

    NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT

    xvda

    ├─xvda1

    └─xvda2 xfs 3e11801e-5277-4d87-be4c-0a9a61fbc3da /

    xvdf

    ├─xvdf1

    └─xvdf2 ntfs New Volume D072FD6E72FD5A24

  6. Here am mount disk temporarily.

    [root@ip-172-31-12-123 ~]# mount -t /dev/xvdf2 /winntfs

  7. To verify the file type

    [root@ip-172-31-12-123 ~]# file -s /dev/xvdf2

    /dev/xvdf2: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x72, starthead 13, startsector 1920221984, 1816210284 sectors, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS ", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 65664, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80)

  8. If you want to mount permanently will have to adde a entry in /etc/fstab

    [root@ip-172-31-12-123 ~]#vim /etcfstab

    /dev/xvdf2 /winntfs NTFS ro,umask=0222,defaults 0 0 (read only Operatiopn)

  9. [root@ip-172-31-12-123 ~]#vim /etcfstab

    /dev/xvdf2 /winntfs NTFS rw,umask=0000,defaults 0 0 (read & write Operation).

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