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How to mount windows NTFS Partition in Linux

To find out your kernel version use following command:

Code:
uname -r

Once downloaded driver use rpm command to install it:

Code:
 rpm -ihv kernel-ntfs*

Now to mount NTFS windows XP system partition use mount command:

Code:
mkdir -p /mnt/c
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdXY /mnt/c

OR

Code:
mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8 /dev/hdXY /mnt

Use fdisk -l command to find out name of NTFS partion:

Code:
fdisk -l
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  1. January 21, 2008 at 3:35 pm | #1

    ntfs3g is much better suited for the task, with almost perfect read and write capability.

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