I have been absent for several days because of my daily busyness. Now in this article I will share my experience on how to mount the ntfs file system in linux or how to mount external harddisk / flash on linux. This case is usually often encountered by newbie who first use linux like me. It is also quite complicated tablets for the newbie when the early use of linux.
Before you mount it, make sure you know the identity of your storage device. Do the following command:
fdisk -l
The output will look like this:
root@vps:/home/apocalypsix# fdisk -l
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on ‘/dev/sdb’! The util fdisk doesn’t support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x90909090
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 976768064 488384001 a5 FreeBSD
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e8382
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 501758 976771071 488134657 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 501760 976771071 488134656 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/mapper/name1-root: 497.7 GB, 497662558208 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60504 cylinders, total 971997184 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/mapper/name1-root doesn’t contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/name1-swap_1: 2134 MB, 2134900736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 259 cylinders, total 4169728 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/mapper/name1-swap_1 doesn’t contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/cryptswap1: 2134 MB, 2134900736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 259 cylinders, total 4169728 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5c311fea
Disk /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 doesn’t contain a valid partition table
root@vps:/home/apocalypsix#
Look at the section I’m giving a green color. That is the second hard drive on my server. While the blue color, it is the primary hard drive where the system.
Actually not so difficult to mount ntfs on linux or mount external harddisk / flash on linux. First we prepare and create a folder in / media / or can / mnt /. For example, the mount will be stored in the / mnt / hdd2 folder, then create a folder in / mnt /
mkdir / mnt / hdd 2
Next, to mount / dev / sdb1 to / mnt / hdd2, perform this command:
mount / dev / sdb1 / mnt / hdd2
And finished. we have successfully mounted NTFS on linux or mounting external harddisk in linux / flashdisk.
But sometimes there are some linux distro that can not read the file system ntfs with large size. I never experienced a failure when I want to mount an external hard drive in linux / flash that size 2TB. I do not know for sure what the problem is, but finally I managed to overcome the case by installing a linux tool. ie ntfs-3g. How to install ntfs-3g is not difficult, just do this command on your linux.
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
After installing ntfs-3g do mount command above, and you will not have any problem with this. Whatever size, you will be able to mount an external hard drive in linux / flashdisk. How to view the list of partitions on linux, including the partition with the mounted NTFS file system you can see it with this command:
df -h
On my server, the output looks like this:
imtmanager@name1:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/name1-root 463G 14G 427G 4% /
udev 993M 4.0K 993M 1% /dev
tmpfs 401M 308K 401M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1002M 4.0K 1002M 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda1 228M 27M 190M 13% /boot
/dev/sdb1 459G 482M 435G 1% /mnt/hdd2
Okay, I think it’s enough for an article on mounting NTFS on linux, mounting external harddisk on linux, mounting flashdisk on linux. As always, if you are having trouble do not hesitate to ask me by writing it in the comments, I’ll be happy to help solve your difficulties.
