[SOLVED] Mounting a folder in NTFS Partition with ntfs-3g
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If I got this right, you want to mount a directory called "Clones" which is located on your sdb2 partition. First of all, you need to mount the filesystem of the device sdb2 somewhere, eg /media/sdb2. Then you need to mount the directory "/media/sdb2/Clones" to your mountpoint, eg /home/partimag. I think this is done with bind mount option. Check the man page of mount tool.
So even if the folder 'Clones' is in an NTFS partition, as long as I have mounted the partition with ntfs-3g, I can still use (or have to use) the 'mount' command to mount the folder?
First, I have to mount the partition with ntfs-3g and then mount the folder with mount.
In two steps instead of one.
ntfs-3g /dev/sdb2 /mnt
mount --bind /mnt/Clones /home/partimag
I was worried that if I didn't use ntfs-3g, it wouldn't be writeable.
The thing I learned is you cannot mount folders with ntfs-3g, just partitions.
But after you mount the NTFS partition with ntfs-3g, you can mount a folder inside that partition with mount.
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