Since Linux supports
different File systems than Windows, there is always a problem accessing the
windows files in linux.
This article helps you in
mounting the ntfs file system on linux and allows accessing the files available
on them. The article was written on RHEL 5.4 with Kernel 2.6.18-238.el5.Make sure you download the correct kernel packages.
There is a need for some
packages to be installed for this to work. We need to download ntfs-3g and fuse
packages. These are available at
For this article purpose, iam
attaching the required files.
1. Install the kernel-module-ntfs
rpm
[root@vx111a]# rpm -ivh
kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.18-128.el5-2.1.27-0.rr.10.11.i686.rpm Preparing... ####################### [100%]
1:kernel-module-ntfs-2.6. #################
[100%]
Use insmod to insert module
into the linux kernel at run time.
[root@vx111a]# insmod
kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.18-128.el5-2.1.27-0.rr.10.11.i686.ko
Once successful, check for
the ntfs
[root@vx111a Desktop]# lsmod
| grep ntfs
ntfs 189080 0
lsmod command shows
information about all the loaded modules.
2. Install the ntfs-3g
packages
- tar
-zvxf ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2012.1.15.tgz
- cd
ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2012.1.15
- ./configure
- make
- make install
3. Install the Fuge package
- tar
-zvxf fuse-2.9.0.tar.gz
- cd
fuse-2.9.0
- ./configure
- make
- make
install
4.Execute the modprobe
command
Modprobe command Is used to
load a single module or a stack of dependent modules.
modprobe fuse
Now the Final Step is to
mount the ntfs file system.
mkdir /mnt/ntfs
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs
cd /mnt/ntfs/
[root@vx111a ntfs]# pwd
/mnt/ntfs
[root@vx111a ntfs]# ll
total 2097497
rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Jul
4 2011 DELL
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Jul 28 2011 Documents and Settings
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul
4 2011 MSDOS.SYS
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47564 Apr 14 2008 NTDETECT.COM
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 250048 Apr 14 2008 ntldr
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug
2 2011 Oracle
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 22 2011 RECYCLER
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1242 Apr
5 21:15 smtp.txt
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Jul
4 2011 System Volume Information
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 20 16:39 t1d8.2
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 25 16:53 t1dc.3
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Mar
2 17:50 TEMP
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 418633 Nov 18 2011 Untitled.sql
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 86016 Jun 27 17:15 WINDOWS
You can access the files from
this location, but windows specific files cannot be accessed.
Download the Files from Here
Happy learning.
