Unable to mount ntfs filesystem on 64bit SLC6.3

johnBruwer · 07-04-2013, 05:05 AM

Hello All

I am trying to convert most of my time to Linux. I want to be able to create a virtual data drive that shares data between my windows and linux partitions. I have used the repositories and done: yum install fuse fuse-libs fuse-devel.
I have downloaded ntfs-3g-1120 and installed it successfully. I am still unable to mount the filesystem. I have tried: $ modprobe ntfs but it doesn't work. I have done:
# fdisk -l | grep NTFS
/dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10240000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1275 47617 372237312 7 HPFS/NTFS

So I know the location but when I type the command: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/ntfs/
it says: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

TobiSGD · 07-04-2013, 05:26 AM

Have you tried it with

Code:

ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /mnt/ntfs

or

Code:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /mnt/ntfs

johnBruwer · 07-04-2013, 07:06 AM

Thank you. It worked.

Madhu Desai · 07-04-2013, 07:29 AM

You can also put following line in /etc/fstab for permanent mount

Code:

/dev/sda2	/mnt/ntfs	ntfs-3g		defaults,uid=500,gid=500,umask=0022,rw		0 0

where 500 is userid/groupid of normal user