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Sarith
Sarith

Reputation: 147

Mount NTFS (read/write capability) filesystem on RHEL 5 (2.6.8-18.el5)

I'm using RHEL 5.0 with the kernel 2.6.8-18.el5. I want to mount my external hard disk drive with the NTFS file system. I cannot mount it because it doesn't support NTFS file system. Error msg: mount: unknown 'ntfs' file system.

Can anyone tell me to mount this hard disk?

Regards,

Sarith

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2059

Answers (2)

user3206070
user3206070

Reputation: 113

Adding to Niels' answer, if you are able to install ntfs-3g package, then use following command, works flawlessly for me on redhat with windows partition: 

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda9

where /dev/sda9 is your windows partition. Before doing this make sure to:

-> Start windows, restart it and login to redhat linux instead of windows.

You might also want to look into bios settings if above ntfs-3g driver doesn't work.

Upvotes: 0

Niels R.
Niels R.

Reputation: 7364

Install the ntfs-3g package as it contains a working NTFS driver for Linux. Afterwards mount using the command: "mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows"

Upvotes: 1

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