Installation of NTFS file system on Linux CentOS 4.3

NTFS (Windows NT File System) is the standard file system of Windows NT, including its later versions Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.NTFS supersedes the FAT file system as the preferred file system for Microsoft’s Windows operating systems. NTFS has several improvements over FAT and HPFS (High Performance File System) such as improved support for metadata and the use of advanced data structures to improve performance, reliability, and disk space utilization, plus additional extensions such as security access control lists (ACL) and file system journaling. The file system specification is a trade secret, although it can be licensed commercially from Microsoft through their Intellectual Property licensing program. 

How to install NTFS file system on CentOS?

Follow the step below.

-install fuse for ntfs
  download fuse-2.7.0.tar.gz from http://fuse.sf.net/
  tar xzvf fuse-2.7.0.tar.gz
  ./configure --exec-prefix=/
  make
  make install

-install ntfs-3g
  download ntfs-3g-1.710.tgz
  tar xzvf ntfs-3g-1.710.tgz
  ./configure
  make
  make install

-mount ntfs
  mkdir /media/usb
  mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/usb #you can find sda1 by dmesg