How-To mount an NTFS drive on CentOS 5.4

March 30th, 2010 KJS

You need rpmforge installed and enabled for this for work, please click here for instructions on how to set this up.

yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g 

Create a mount point for the USB disk

mkdir /media/usbdisk

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk

If you do not know what device your USB disk is, I would suggest using “fdisk -l” this will list all the attached disks & their partitions.

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3 Responses to “How-To mount an NTFS drive on CentOS 5.4”

1. Marty Torrez says:

   February 24, 2011 at 18:12

   Thanks guys since I’m a newbee at this, only ben 2 it for 6 months, your explaination was great and much better than other sites for new guys like me. Please keep up the excellent work.

   Cordially,
   Marty
2. Christian says:

   April 4, 2011 at 21:16

   Thanks for help

   Gracias por tu ayuda amigo.
3. Jason P Sage says:

   October 9, 2011 at 19:18

   In CentOS 64 version 5.4, mount reports that there is no ntfs-3g filesystem even though it installed fine.

   This wasn’t the case where I had the wrong drive… because using the fdisk -l example provided, I could easily spot the one USB drive with NTFS filesystem on it.

   I don’t have a solution, other than for now – in a pinch, I’m going to boot to Puppy Linux which has this sort of USB connectivity pretty much under wraps – so I’ll start copying my daya from my USB backup to the computer…. just in another OS. But I wanted to report that the steps above don’t seem to work in 5.4 64 bit version of CentOS.

   Maybe 6.0 will be easier for USB in general… saving us from the lower level steps for seemingly “should be easy” (feels that way….tasks!

   –Jason P Sage (B^)>