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How To Access Windows NTFS Partition From Linux

Generally Linux cannot access windows NTFD partition. But if we put some effort on it we can access the NTFS partition of our PC from linux environment. The way to do it is given below. Do as mentioned.


Step 1.
Install rpmforge-release package. Download it from DAG (http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/).

Step 2.
yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g dkms dkms-fuse

Step 3.
Mount your ntfs volume. /dev/sdc5 is my ntfs partition.

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc5 /mnt/win_c