Enable RHEL5 to support ntfs partitioning

By default, the ntfs file system is not supported in Linux. View the file systems supported by linux. The Installation tool is required to support NTFS partitioning. [Root @ localhostaudisp] # cat/etc/filesystemsext3ext2nodevprocnodevdevptsiso9660vfathfshfsplus first install the tool ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2013.1.13.tgz. [Root @

By default, the ntfs file system is not supported in Linux. View the file systems supported by linux. The Installation tool is required to support NTFS partitioning.
[Root @ localhostaudisp] # cat/etc/filesystems
Ext3
Ext2
Nodev proc
Nodev devpts
Iso9660
Vfat
Hfs
Hfsplus

First install the tool ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2013.1.13.tgz.
[Root @ localhost ~] # Ls
Anaconda-ks.cfg Desktop install. log install. log. syslog ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2013.1.13.tgz scsrun. log vmware-tools-distrib

Decompress the package to the/data directory.
[Root @ localhost ~] # Tar zxvf ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2013.1.13.tgz-C/data/
[Root @ localhost ~] # Ls/data/
Lost + found mytest ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2013.1.13

Go to the directory
[Root @ localhost ~] # Cd/data/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2013.1.13/
[Root@localhostntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2013.1.13] # ls
Aclocal. m4 ChangeLog config. h. in configure. ac credits install libntfs-3g Makefile. am NEWS src
AUTHORS compile config. sub COPYING depcomp install-sh ltmain. sh Makefile. in ntfsprogs TODO. ntfsprogs
Autogen. sh config. guess configure COPYING. LIB include libfuse-lite m4 missing README

Execute configuration compilation and installation.
[Root@localhostntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2013.1.13] #./configure
[Root@localhostntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2013.1.13] # make & make install

Create a new partition and change the system type to 7, that is, ntfs.
[Root @ localhost ~] # Fdisk/dev/sdc
Command (m for help): n
Command action
E extended
P primary partition (1-4)
P
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (1218-2610, default 1218 ):
Using default value 1218
Last cylinder or + size or + sizeM or + sizeK (1218-2610, default 2610 ):
Using default value 2610
Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 2
Hex code (type L to list codes): 7
Changed system type of partition 2 to 7 (HPFS/NTFS)
Command (m for help): w
[Root @ localhost ~] # Partprobe

Create a/NTFS directory. Format the/dev/sdc2 partition file system as ntfs.
[Root @ localhost ~] # Mkdir/NTFS
[Root @ localhost ~] # Mkfs. ntfs/dev/sdc2
Cluster size has been automatically set to4096 bytes.
Initializing device with zeroes: 100%-Done.
Creating NTFS volume structures.

Mount/dev/sdc2 to the/NTFS directory.
[Root @ localhost ~] # Ntfs-3g/dev/sdc2/NTFS
[Root @ localhost ~] # Df-h
File System capacity used available % mount point
/Dev/sda3 95G 2.5G 88G 3%/
/Dev/sda2 95G 605 M 90G 1%/data
/Dev/sda1 99 M 12 M 82 M 13%/boot
Tmpfs 500 M 0 500 M 0%/dev/shm
/Dev/sdc2 11G 56 M 11G 1%/NTFS

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