Now a days, most of Linux technology automatically detects windows partition. When we have dual boot system (Linux + Windows), in this case users try to mount Windows partition(ntfs partition), but they fail to mount partition. This tutorial teaches you how to mount NTFS partition in CentOS 7.

STEP-1: ENABLE EPEL (EXTRA PACKAGES FOR ENTERPRISE LINUX) REPOSITORY.

Download the epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm file using wget command and install it using RPM in your system. Now, open terminal and enter following commands(Refer Screenshot-1),

RHEL/CENTOS 7 64 BIT

# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm

# rpm -ivh epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm

Screenshot-1: Enable EPEL Repository

STEP-2: INSTALL NTFS3G

ntfs-3g is an NTFS driver, which can create, remove, rename, move files, directories, hard links, and streams. It can read and write files, including streams, sparse files and transparently compressed files.

Note: FUSE module is included in the kernel itself in version 2.6.18-164 or Newer.

Now we need to install ntfs-3g, use the following command to install ntfs-3g file.

# yum -y install ntfs-3g

Now, we need to identify NTFS Partition, use following command, (Refer screenshot-2)

# fdisk -l

Screenshot-2: List of Available Partition

STEP-3: MOUNT NTFS PARTITION

Now, we need to create mount point to mount NTFS partition. Enter the following command to create directory,

# mkdir /mnt/wntfs

Run the following command to mount the partition. Replace sda5 with your actual partition found

# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5 /mnt/wntfs

Now, check the mounted partition on /mnt/wntfs, enter the following command to list the content of mounted filesystem.

# ls -l

Sample Output

[root@ewt wntfs]# ls -l
total 935236
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     28672 Sep 13  2013 Amazing Virtual Tours
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     81826 Jan 15  2014 amcat-test-syllabus.pdf
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     98304 Jul  3  2013 Android
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    800624 May  2  2013 Arch XFCE.png
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      4096 Jul 20 14:21 ASN Technology
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      4096 Feb 28  2014 BACK
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      4096 Jun 22 17:50 BackUp New
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     32768 Jul 26 19:01 BOOKS

Add following entry in /etc/fstab file to mount partition permanent at the time of boot. Replace sda5 with your actual partition found

/dev/sda5    /mnt/wntfs    ntfs-3g        defaults    0    0

STEP-4: UMOUNT NTFS PARTITION

Use following command in terminal to unmount partition,

# umount /mnt/wntfs

That’s it.