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Friday, April 18, 2008

How to mount external ntfs USB in RHEL?

Follow the steps to mount external ntfs USB in RHEL or in any linux system.

Get your kernel version: uname -r
2.6.9-42.ELsmp (For my RHEL)
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Install the package downloaded according to your kernel version
http://rpmfind.net/linux/sourceforge/l/li/linux-ntfs/
rpm -ivh kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.9-42.ELsmp-2.1.20-0.rr.10.0.i686.rpm
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/sbin/modprobe ntfs (as root)
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cat /proc/filesystems
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Check volume names of your USB Drive.
cat /etc/fstab
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Mount external ntfs USB
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb/ -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
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Unmount external ntfs USB
sudo umount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb/

You r done!