Mount NTFS file system with read only access
NTFS kernel support
Majority of current Linux distributions supports NTFS file system out of the box. To be more specific, support for NTFS file system is more feature of Linux kernel modules rather than Linux distributions. First verify if we have NTFS modules installed on our system.
ls /lib/modules/2.6.30/kernel/fs/ | grep ntfs
Check for NTFS kernel support, if NTFS module is present. Let's identify NTFS partition.
Identifying partition with NTFS file system
One simple way to identify NTFS partition is:
fdisk -l | grep NTFS
For our example lets assume that a partition named /dev/sdb1 is the NTFS partition.
First create a mount point:
mkdir /mnt/ntfs
Then simply use mount command to mount it:
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs
Now we can access NTFS partition and its files with read write access.
