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Mounting NTFS filesystem on CentOS 5.2

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 =)

Solution

  • 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