Access NTFS from Linux

Access NTFS file-system from Linux

There are some method of accessing windows system from a Linux system one of them I use to prefer is ntfs-3g driver.

First of all, we must have “ntfs-3g” package for accessing windows NTFS file system through Linux file system which can be download through  this link http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

            Package Recuired:

1. fuse-2.6.0

2. ntfs-3g-1.913.tgz

Check to see if you have the required package, FUSE 2.6.0 or later. We assume our system already has one, follow the given process as…

# yum list installed | grep fuse

# tar xvzf ntfs-3g-1.913.tgz              (Extract the ntfs-3g driver package)

Install ntfs-3g driver as…

# cd ntfs-3g-1.913

# ./configure

# make

# make install

Try to mount NTFS hard disk in /mnt or we can make another mount point (Folder) for access it.

# mkdir /mnt/windows

# mount  -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows

If it had already been mounted somehow, unmount it first.

# umount /meia/My\ Book/

# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows

Sometimes, you may need to enforce mounting like

# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows -o force

To unmount the volume, type

# umount /mnt/windows

To view the all mount file-system information, type

# mount

/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)

proc on /proc type proc (rw)

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)

/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)

tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)

sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)

/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/windows type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)

# more /etc/fstab

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1

LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2

devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0

tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0

Note: Sometimes we need “fuse” to access it. So Installing FUSE (File-system in User space). Download the latest stable release from http://fuse.sourceforge.net

Extract the fuse package for installing.

# tar xvzf fuse-2.7.0.tar.gz

Install FUSE by using these steps.

# cd fuse-2.7.0

# ./configure

# make

# make install