Fedora – NTFS Read/Write
Make Sure To Read All Of This Post Before Doing Anything, If You Don’t Understand It ALL, Do Not Continue
Install NTFS Support
yum -y install fuse fuse-libs ntfs-3g ntfsprogs ntfsprogs-gnomevfs
Check Your Partitions
Use fdisk to list partitions. Most ATA hard drives will be /dev/hda. Drives may also show up as /dev/hdb or /dev/sda depending on your configuration.
fdisk -l
(find all NTFS labels, using the partitions you want below)
Create Mount Points
For every partition in step 2 that you wish to access, you will need a “mount point”. A mount point is just a directory. Common directories are: /media/ and /mnt/. Use whichever, but be consistent.
cd /media/
mkdir c d e
(no spaces for the mount name, put a space between each “folder” you want to make)
Mount Partitions(first time)
Using NTFS-3G, we mount the NTFS partition using read-write.
mount /dev/hda1 /media/c -t ntfs-3g -rw -o umask=0000,force
mount /dev/hda2 /media/d -t ntfs-3g -rw -o umask=0000,force
mount /dev/hda3 /media/e -t ntfs-3g -rw -o umask=0000,force
(remember to only mount NTFS partitions this way, never leave out “force” else fedora may cause partition errors)
Install gedit Editor(including the stars)
yum -y install *gedit*
Fedora Boot Mounting
gedit /etc/fstab
Add mount lines to the END of the file you just opened in gedit
/dev/hda1 /media/c ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000,force 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/d ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000,force 0 0
/dev/hda3 /media/e ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000,force 0 0
Hints:
hda# should be changed to your drive numbers, delete the extra commands…
c,d,e should be changed to whatever you want JUST NO SPACES IN THE NAMES
Deviating from this tutorial might damage your ntfs, this is proven to work over 9 months