Installing and Configuring NTFS-3G in CentOS

NTFS-3g allows to mount, read and write NTFS filesystems under CentOS follow this steps to install it:

• # cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ -> Move to the repos directory
• # wget http://www.alcancelibre.org/al/server/AL-Server.repo -> Download the AL-Server (Alcance libre) repository.
• # yum -y install ntfs-3g -> This will install the ntfs-3g packages
• # fdisk -l -> Read the partition table and marks the NTFS partitions
• Create the directories to mount the NTFS partitions
• # ntfs-3g /dev/device /directory-to-mount

To set the automount on every system startup put this lines over the /etc/fstab:

/dev/device1 /directory-to-mount1 ntfs-3g defaults.locale=es_ES.utf.8  0 0
/dev/device2 /directory-to-mount2 ntfs-3g defaults.locale=es_ES.utf.8  0 0

Finally you will have the NTFS filesystem available on Centos.

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