Mount / Access NTFS Filesystem / Partition on RHEL / CentOS 6.xPosted in July 15, 2013 9:45 amh.-Post metadata unknown-14 Comments Hello,Getting Error for NTFS File System on RHEL / CentOS ?Unable to mount PartitionError mounting: mount: unknown filesystem type ntfs

NTFS on CentOS 6In ENT Linux like RHEL and CentOS there are no packages installed by default to access or Mount NTFS Partition, I have already share the same kind of article way behind for RHEL 5.x.I am Sharing how to, So By Following this you will able to Mount / Access NTFS Partitions / FileSystem on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x and CentOS 6.x

NTFS 3gIt is very simple and Basic to Install NTFS Modules on both Linux, Almost Same method is used for the CentOS and RHEL 6.x.Only Few Packages which needs to be Installed and You are done.1.Execute Below Command toInstall and Configure EPEL Repository[root@tejas-barot-linux-support-ahmedabad ~]# wgethttp://epel.mirror.net.in/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm[root@tejas-barot-linux-support-ahmedabad ~]# rpm -Uvhepel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm2.Execute Below Command to Install Package related to NTFS Mount :-[root@tejas-barot-linux-support-ahmedabad ~]#yum -y install ntfs-3g ntfsprogs3. Attach NTFS Drive and Execute Below command to Find and Mount Partition :-# To Find Attached NTFS Partition Execute Below Command :-[root@tejas-barot-linux-support-ahmedabad ~]#fdisk -l | grep NTFS# You will get output Something like below :-/dev/sdb1 * 1 1034 1973248 7 HPFS/NTFS#Execute Below command to Mount NTFS Partition[root@tejas-barot-linux-support-ahmedabad ~]#mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt4. To Mount NTFS Partition Permanently You can add following entry to/etc/fstab Example Entry :-/dev/sdb1 /mnt ntfs-3g default 0 0Save and Exit from/etc/fstabThats IT, Now You will able to Mount / Access NTFS Partition on RHEL / CentOS 6.xIf you like this then Please ClickGoogle +1 Buttonand Show Your Support. Your Support will encourage me to write more articles.Ask for Linux Commercial Support :-http://www.tejasbarot.com/linux-commercial-support/All Linux Users Blog Mobile Applications:-http://www.tejasbarot.com/download-mobile-apps/