[BBB] How to connect 1TB external USB HDD with NTFS on Beaglebone Black

BBB Linux doesn’t recognise NTFS File System by default it throws error.

if you check by using following command

$df -h

most of time you may see /dev/sda1 is not available. it needs additional package to understand NTFS filesystem.

install ntfs-3g package to make NTFS filesystem availble. 

 

opkg install ntfs-3g

Now create mount folder to link your HDD

 

Now connect USB external HDD to USB port.and launch following command (hdd_tb is )

 

mkdir /mnt/<desired name>

then 

 mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/<desired_name>

now you can access all files from HDD by browsing 

/mnt/<desired_name>