CentOS 7 with NTFS-3G Driver Installed

CentOS 7 with NTFS-3G Driver Installed

NTFS-3G, a small but very useful NTFS Driver, available on most UNIX-like distributions. It is useful for mounting and accessing the Windows NTFS file system. Although there are other available alternatives, such as Tuxera, NTFS-3G is the most widely used.

The following describes how to install the NTFS-3G driver in CentOS 7.

# Yum install ntfs-3g

Install NTFS-3G for mounting Windows partitions

After the ntfs-3g is installed, you can mount the Windows NTFS partition using the following command (my Windows partition is/dev/sda5 ).

# Mount-ro ntfs-3g/dev/sda5/mnt
# Cd/mnt
# Ls-l

Mount NTFS devices with ntfs-3g in Linux