RHEL / CentOS Linux: Mount and Access NTFS Partition

10 Feb 2023Best/Tutorial

To mount and access an NTFS partition on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or CentOS system, you will need to install the NTFS-3G driver, which provides support for NTFS file systems. Here's how you can do it:

Install the required packages:
```
sudo yum install ntfs-3g
```
Create a mount point directory, where the NTFS partition will be mounted:
```
sudo mkdir /mnt/ntfs
```
Use the following command to mount the NTFS partition to the mount point directory:
```
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdX /mnt/ntfs
```
Replace /dev/sdX with the actual device name of your NTFS partition.
Verify that the NTFS partition has been successfully mounted by using the following command:
```
df -h
```
This will display a list of all mounted file systems, including the NTFS partition.
To access the NTFS partition, simply navigate to the mount point directory:
```
cd /mnt/ntfs
```

rnBy default, the NTFS-3G driver will mount the NTFS partition with read-write permissions. If you need to mount the partition with read-only permissions, you can add the -o ro option to the mount command:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/sdX /mnt/ntfs

You can also add the mount information to the /etc/fstab file to make the NTFS partition persistently available across reboots. To do this, add the following line to the /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sdX /mnt/ntfs ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Replace /dev/sdX with the actual device name of your NTFS partition.

That's it! Your NTFS partition should now be accessible on your RHEL or CentOS system.