Monday, June 27, 2011

NTFS read/write in Linux

I have a USB drive formated as NTFS and need to mount it to my CentOS laptop.  To enable read and write in NTFS, you can download NTFS-3g from http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/.  The instruction to configure it is on http://linuxconfig.org/How_to_mount_partition_with_ntfs_file_system_and_read_write_access

You can also use older version for CentOS and save you time by installing the rpm.  Run the following command
yum list fuse-ntfs-3g
yum update fuse-ntfs-3g

Once completed, run rpm -qa | grep "ntfs" to confirm the installation of rpm.  Now, you can read and write on your NTFS formatted USB drive.

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