For CentOS that also using windows as their dual boot OS must have diffilcuties to see or mount windows on their CentOS directory, at least it happen with one of my friend and here is the solution.
First you need to check the windows partition first
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3187 25599546 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 3188 4865 13478535 83 Linux
Disk /dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 4865 39078081 7 HPFS/NTFS
as you can see windows partition located on /dev/hda1 ( program files , windows etc) and /dev/hdb1 (data)
Now installed the required packages
yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g dkms dkms-fuse
(dkms and dkms-fuse install the fuse kernel module)
If the rpmforge repo is disabled by default,
# yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g dkms dkms-fuse
Mounting windows NTFS filesystem
First, create a mount point.
mkdir /mounting/win
Next, edit /etc/fstab as follows. To mount read-only:
/dev/hda1 /mounting/win ntfs-3g ro,umask=0222,defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mounting/win1 ntfs-3g ro,umask=0222,defaults 0 0
To mount read-write:
/dev/hda1 /mounting/win ntfs-3g rw,umask=0000,defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mounting/win1 ntfs-3g rw,umask=0000,defaults 0 0
You can now mount it by running:
#mount /mounting/win
# mount /mounting/win1
Common Error
When you try to mount you will see this error
# mount /mymnt/win
FATAL: Module fuse not found.
ntfs-3g-mount: fuse device is missing, try 'modprobe fuse' as root
and when you try to run modprove fuse you will get this error
# modprobe fuse
FATAL: Module fuse not found.
Solution :
The error could be cause by the kernel dependecies problem here you should do
Lets just check which kernel packages you have installed and which kernel you are currently running.
# uname -a
Linux cahpct 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:44:23 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
then use depmod (handle dependency descriptions for loadable kernel modules )
# depmod -a 2.6.18-128.el5
Then reboot the machine and select the 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel from the list available( if you don’t see it , it’s usually use the default 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel)
# reboot
then run modprobe fuse again and mount it:
# modprobe fuse dan mount
# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdb1 /mymnt/win1
# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mymnt/win
or
#mount /mounting/win
# mount /mounting/win1
