I want to mount some internal and external NTFS drives in CentOS 5.2, preferably automatically upon boot-up. Doesn't matter if it's read/write or read-only, but read/write would be preferred, if it's safe.
Edit: Thanks for all answers, I summarized them below =)
first do a
fdisk -l
get the harddrive partition, ie /dev/sda2
then
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/windows
if this fails, try a
yum install ntfs-3g
* Just noted this is not included by default, so you can check out NTFS-3g here, and find a suitable package for your system.
to auto mount this, add a line to /etc/fstab saying
/dev/sda2 /mnt/temp ntfs defaults 0 0
and this should auto mount on a reboot
To answer my own question: PostMan and mgb led me to the right path, but their answers did not contain complete solution.
Note: A short manual/wiki on this question is here: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions
So, I am using a fresh, bare install of CentOS 5.2 with latest updates. First of all, I ran the su
command to avoid any permission issues.
I created mount points for a couple of external NTFS drives:
mkdir /mnt/iomega80
mkdir /mnt/iogear250
I had to use the fdisk command, but it wasn't in my system. Here's what installs it:
yum install util-linux
Then I ran /sbin/fdisk -l
and found the device names:
Disk /dev/sdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
**/dev/sdc1** * 1 30401 244196001 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdd: 82.3 GB, 82348278272 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
**/dev/sdd1** * 1 10011 80413326 7 HPFS/NTFS
For me, they are /dev/sdc1
and /dev/sdd1
.
I had to install NTFS-3G, a package that enables NTFS support on CentOS. To install NTFS-3G, I first had to include RPMFORGE in YUM repository list.
To include RPMFORGE in YUM repository list, I used these instructions: http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Using. For my system, the two commands I had to run were:
wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Finally, I installed NTFS-3G using this YUM command:
yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g dkms dkms-fuse
At last, I could use the mount command to mount the filesystems:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /mnt/iogear250
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdd1 /mnt/iomega80
By adding these two lines to /etc/fstab
, like previous answers suggested, I got the drives to mount upon boot-up:
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/iogear250 ntfs-3g rw,umask=0000,defaults 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/iomega80 ntfs-3g rw,umask=0000,defaults 0 0
You should already have ntfs available, read-write support is now pretty reliable.
You can test it with "mount -t ntfs /dev/sdX1 /mnt/tmp" you need to know what drive the external disk is identified as (check dmesg) and you need to make a mount point.
To mount automatically everytime put a line in /etc/fstab, use one of the existing lines as an example - you will have to be root to do this.
You forgot to mention that you need to do a reboot after installing fuse, etc.
First enable the repository Epel
yum install epel-release
Then install ntfs
yum install ntfs-3g
yum -y install epel-release
yum -y install ntfs-3g
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg