Mounting a Windows created external disk on a Linux system (Centos 7, now) and seeing :
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
Its time to install some more free software ! The disk looks like :
[root@server svenn]# fdisk -l /dev/sdbg
Disk /dev/sdbg: 3000.6 GB, 3000592977920 bytes, 732566645 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x49208b59
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdbg1 2048 732565503 2930253824 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
NTFS, the mark of a windows user … well on to solving it :
If you haven’t install the epel-repo do that first :
yum install epel-release
Then install this package :
yum install ntfs-3g
and mount this little disk :
mount /dev/sdbg1 /media/tmp_disk
optionally you could specify the type like :
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdbg1 /media/tmp_disk
my /var/log/messages looks like this :
Apr 21 13:22:06 server kernel: fuse init (API version 7.22) Apr 21 13:22:06 server systemd: Mounting FUSE Control File System... Apr 21 13:22:06 server systemd: Mounted FUSE Control File System. Apr 21 13:22:07 server ntfs-3g[21611]: Version 2016.2.22 integrated FUSE 27 Apr 21 13:22:07 server ntfs-3g[21611]: Mounted /dev/sdbg1 (Read-Write, label "Seagate Expansion Drive", NTFS 3.1) Apr 21 13:22:07 server ntfs-3g[21611]: Cmdline options: rw Apr 21 13:22:07 server ntfs-3g[21611]: Mount options: rw,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/sdbg1,blkdev,blksize=4096 Apr 21 13:22:07 server ntfs-3g[21611]: Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 1
