http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS
[Note: if you are running a centosplus kernel, see this section]
Installing required packages
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While older ntfs drivers were prone to eat your data in r/w-mode, ntfs-3g seems to be r/w safe. See the ntfs-3g QA page for more information.
Make sure you have the rpmforge repo installed. If not, refer to Repositories.
Install the following packages.
yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g dkms dkms-fuse
(dkms and dkms-fuse install the fuse kernel module)
If the rpmforge repo is disabled by default,
yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g dkms dkms-fuse
If you are using the ATrpms repository there is no need to install dkms and dkms-fuse (you still need fuse-ntfs-3g from rpmforge).
The line to install from ATrpms then is
yum install fuse-kmdl fuse
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Do not mix from both repositories if you have rpmforge and atrpms installed. Choose one to install fuse from. You might want to take a look at the yum priorities plugin to priorize one repository over the other. Make sure that you have the correct kernel-devel package installed - especially having one that matches your running kernel. dkms has kernel-devel as a requirement, but that only pulls in the standard kernel-devel package.
If you are running the xen kernel (kernel-xen), you need to
yum install kernel-xen-devel
If you're running kernel-PAE, you need to install
yum install kernel-PAE-devel
Same goes for kernel-smp and so on.
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yum will install the latest kernel-*-devel package. Make sure that it fits the kernel you are using. You might have to reboot to run the latest installed kernel after a "yum update". The installed running kernel and the kernel-*-devel package have to match.
Mounting an NTFS filesystem
Suppose your ntfs filesystem is /dev/sda1 and you are going to mount it on /mymnt/win, do the following.
First, create a mount point.
mkdir /mymnt/win
Next, edit /etc/fstab as follows. To mount read-only:
/dev/sda1 /mymnt/win ntfs-3g ro,umask=0222,defaults 0 0
To mount read-write:
/dev/sda1 /mymnt/win ntfs-3g rw,umask=0000,defaults 0 0
You can now mount it by running:
mount /mymnt/win
Users of the centosplus kernel
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The NTFS module is not enabled in the centoplus kernel starting with CentOS-5.3. This is because NTFS in 5.3 is broken. Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481495 for details.
In CentOSPlus (Repositories/CentOSPlus) kernels, both ntfs and fuse kernel modules are enabled. The main difference between ntfs and ntfs-3g is that the former is read-only, whilst the latter is read-write. Therefore, if you do not need write access to a ntfs filesystem, there is no need to install additional packages. Simply add this line to /etc/fstab :
/dev/sda1 /mymnt/win ntfs ro,umask=0222,defaults 0 0
If you wish to have read-write access, you would need the fuse-ntfs-3g package. But, because the fuse module is already available in the kernel, you do not need the dkms package:
yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g
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However, the fuse kernel module included in CentOS 5 (as of August 2007) produces a message: WARNING: Deficient FUSE kernel module detected. It still works, but it is advised that the fuse module from RPMforge (newer) be used instead. Also, you should update to the latest kernel which does not suffer from this issue.
Therefore, run:
yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g dkms dkms-fuse
to replace the existing fuse kernel module with the one from RPMforge.
See also:
http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfs-en#can_i_mount_an_ntfs_volume (read-only mounting)
Written and currently maintained by AkemiYagi. Comments/improvement welcome.