Jan
13
2012

Centos mount: unknown filesystem type ntfs

Centos by default does not support ntfs which can be added very easly.

How to mount an NTFS Filesystem

Required Packages

Make sure you have the rpmforge repo installed.

Install the following packages.
yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g

If the rpmforge repo is disabled by default,
yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g


Mounting an NTFS filesystem

Suppose your ntfs filesystem is /dev/sde1 and you are going to mount it on /mnt/ntfsdrive, do the following.
First, create a mount point.
mkdir /mnt/nftsdrive

Next, edit /etc/fstab as follows. To mount read-only:
/dev/sde1 /mnt/ntfsdrive ntfs-3g ro,umask=0222,defaults 0 0

To mount read-write:
/dev/sde1 /mnt/ntfsdrive ntfs-3g rw,umask=0000,defaults 0 0

You can now mount it by running:
mount /mnt/nftsdrive

ref: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS