How To Mount Drives With NTFS Partition In Linux

LINUX SNIPPET

How To Mount Drives (USB) With NTFS Partition On Linux (CentOS / RHEL 7&8)

1. Verify the drive.

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# lsblk

NAME          MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda             8:0    0   25G  0 disk
├─sda1          8:1    0    1G  0 part /boot
└─sda2          8:2    0   24G  0 part
  ├─rhel-root 253:0    0   22G  0 lvm  /
  └─rhel-swap 253:1    0    2G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
sr0            11:0    1  7.3G  0 rom  /run/media/root/RHEL-8-1-0-BaseOS-x86_64
[root@HQEBPRD ~]#

2. Insert the drive into the system.

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# lsblk

NAME          MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda             8:0    0   25G  0 disk
├─sda1          8:1    0    1G  0 part /boot
└─sda2          8:2    0   24G  0 part
  ├─rhel-root 253:0    0   22G  0 lvm  /
  └─rhel-swap 253:1    0    2G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
sdb             8:16   1  3.8G  0 disk
├─sdb1          8:17   1  200M  0 part
└─sdb2          8:18   1  3.6G  0 part
sr0            11:0    1  7.3G  0 rom  /run/media/root/RHEL-8-1-0-BaseOS-x86_64
[root@HQEBPRD ~]#

If you try to mount, you will get the following error

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# mount /dev/sdb1 /tekneed

mount: /tekneed: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs' .

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# mount /dev/sdb2 /tekneed

mount: /tekneed: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'.
[root@HQEBPRD ~]#

3. install the ntfs-3g package to be able to mount. However, it doesn’t come with the default repository. Hence, install the EPEL package.

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:30:02 ago on Thu 09 Apr 2020 11:12:05 AM WAT.
epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm                               13 kB/s |  21 kB     00:01
Dependencies resolved.


Installed:
  epel-release-8-7.el8.noarch

Complete!
[root@HQEBPRD ~]#

You may use the below URL for a RHEL 7 system.

yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

Install ntfs-3g

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# yum install ntfs-3g

Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                652 kB/s | 6.2 MB     00:09
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:06 ago on Thu 09 Apr 2020 11:44:32 AM WAT.

Installed:
  ntfs-3g-2:2017.3.23-11.el8.x86_64

Complete!
[root@HQEBPRD ~]#

4. create a mount point

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# mkdir /tekneed

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# mkdir /tekneed2

5. Mount the drive

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# mount /dev/sdb1 /tekneed

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# mount /dev/sdb2 /tekneed2

OR

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb2 /tekneed2

5. verify the mounted drives

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# df -h

Filesystem             Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs               886M     0  886M   0% /dev
tmpfs                  904M     0  904M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                  904M   11M  893M   2% /run
tmpfs                  904M     0  904M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/rhel-root   22G  4.3G   18G  20% /
/dev/sda1             1014M  180M  835M  18% /boot
tmpfs                  181M  4.0K  181M   1% /run/user/1000
tmpfs                  181M  1.2M  180M   1% /run/user/42
tmpfs                  181M  4.6M  177M   3% /run/user/0
/dev/sr0               7.4G  7.4G     0 100% /run/media/root/RHEL-8-1-0-BaseOS-x86_64
/dev/sdb1              200M  119M   82M  60% /tekneed
/dev/sdb2              3.6G   61M  3.6G   2% /tekneed2
[root@HQEBPRD ~]#

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# cd /tekneed

[root@HQEBPRD tekneed]# ls

'System Volume Information'   View

[root@HQEBPRD tekneed]# cd /tekneed2

[root@HQEBPRD tekneed2]# ls

'Folder 1'  'Folder 2'  'Folder 3'  'System Volume Information'
[root@HQEBPRD tekneed2]#

6. To Make it Persistent, add it to the fstab file.

[root@HQEBPRD ~]# vi /etc/fstab

/dev/sdb1    /tekneed     ntfs-3g   defaults   0 0
/dev/sdb2    /tekneed2    ntfs-3g   defaults   0 0

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