Linux mount NTFS-formatted hard drives below

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1. Install NTFS Support

For Yum users:

[Mirandam@charon ~]$ sudo yum install fuse fuse-libs ntfs-3g ntfsprogs NTFSPROGS-GNOMEVFS

Users without yum, download fuse, Fuse-lib and ntfs-3g (Ntfsprogs and Ntfsprogs-gnomevfs are) from Fedora optional. Save them to a separate directory (NTFS). They are less than 1MB download.

[Mirandam@charon downloads]$ CD NTFS
[Mirandam@charon ntfs]$ sudo rpm-ivh fuse* ntfs*

No kernel version checking is required, so long as you are using a FC6 kernel.

2. Check Your Partitions

Use the Fdisk to list partitions. Most ATA hard drives would be/dev/hda. Drives may also the AS/DEV/HDB,/DEV/SDA depending on your configuration.

[Mirandam@charon ~]$ Sudo/sbin/fdisk-lu/dev/hda | grep NTFS
/DEV/HDA1 * 33559784 16779861 7 Hpfs/ntfs
/dev/hda2 33559785 67119569 16779892+ 7 hpfs/ntfs
/dev/hda3 67119570 100679354 16779892+ 7 hpfs/ntfs

Usually the "I" is a drive "letter": C Drive, Next D, etc. HENCE/DEV/HDA1 is I c:/drive used by Windows.

3. Create Mount Points

For every partition in step 2 that's you wish to access, and you'll need a "mount point". Mount A is just a directory. Common directories are:/media/and/mnt/. Use whichever and but be consistent.

[Mirandam@charon ~]$ cd/media/
[Mirandam@charon media]$ sudo mkdir c_drive d_drive e_drive

You don't have to use this names, if you are prefer to create folders such as movies, documents, or WinXP, any name would wor K (without spaces).

4. Mount partitions

Using ntfs-3g, we can mount the NTFS partition Read-write, however it is recommended for novices as Read-only. The following mounts and sets the permissions so all users can read the contents to each partition.

[Mirandam@charon ~]$ sudo mount/dev/hda1/media/c_drive-t ntfs-3g-r-o umask=0222
[Mirandam@charon ~]$ sudo mount/dev/hda2/media/d_drive-t ntfs-3g-r-o umask=0222
[Mirandam@charon ~]$ sudo mount/dev/hda3/media/e_drive-t ntfs-3g-r-o umask=0222

Read/write access:the above is for read-only Access. In the order to mount Read/write, your must use The-rw-o umask=0000. Example:

[Mirandam@charon ~]$ sudo mount/dev/hda1/media/c_drive-t ntfs-3g-rw-o umask=0000

Highly recommended:please run mans mount to understand what umask= does.

5. Update/etc/fstab

Every Time Fedora boots, the partitions must to be mounted. To the automatically mount, you must edit/etc/fstab.

Open/etc/fstab in the editor: (use nano instead of the gedit if you don't have a GUI)

[Mirandam@charon ~]$ sudo gedit/etc/fstab

Add these lines to the "end of" the file:

/dev/hda1/media/c_drive ntfs-3g ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda2/media/d_drive ntfs-3g ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda3/media/e_drive ntfs-3g ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0

Read/write access:the above is for read-only Access. In order for Mount Read/write, you must use the rw,defaults,umask=0000. Example:

/dev/hda1/media/c_drive ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0

done!