Sunday, April 24, 2011

Mount NTFS disk to CentOS 5.5

1. Find out the hardware platform:
uname -i

2. Download the rpmforge-release package.

i386 - http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
x86_64 - http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

3. Install GPG key:
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

4. Install the package.
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.*.rpm

5. Install fuse-ntfs-3g packages.
yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g

6. Check the NTFS partition.
fdisk -l

7. Create the mount point.
mkdir /mnt/windows

8. Mount the NTFS disk.
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows

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