How does one mount an external Hard Drive in Linux 6.5
If someone can tell me how to mount an external hard drive in Linux 6.5. I have edited the /etc/fstab file with /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat default 0 0 except my external hard drive file type is ntfs. How do I go about getting this type of filesystem recognized without having to install: yum install -y fuse*, can someone please help me out here, there has to be a way around this in order for an external hard drive to be seen by the system.
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Ramona,
Accessing NTFS is tedious from Linux and it is usually problematic.
I believe in RHEL 6/7 you are able to use the ntfs-3g package from EPEL which should solve your problem.
This is not a Red Hat supported package, but it can be downloaded from here:
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repoview/ntfs-3g.html
Here you go
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
in fstab
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs defaults 0 0
Arrey,
You will still need the ntfs-3g package installed from EPEL to do this.
Red Hat have a solution for this too:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/23993
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