Problem mounting NTFS External HDD

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I am facing this issue of not able to mount my NTFS external hdd.

I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga)
Kernel version: 2.6.18-92.el5
Fuse RPM: fuse-2.7.4-8_12.el5
NTFS-3G RPM: ntfs-3g-2014.2.15-1.el5.pp

I am not able to perform yum due to network firewall restriction and also some time differences issue.
So using yum is not a solution.

I have already install FUSE & NTFS-3G RPM packages, create a mount-point and face the following error.

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /mnt/backup
FATAL: Module fuse not found.
ntfs-3g-mount: fuse device is missing, try 'modprobe fuse' as root

I ran the command "modprobe fuse" and got the following error:
FATAL: Module fuse not found.

Need this urgent to perform my backup using 'dump' command.
I'm fresh to RHEL, any help is appreciated!

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Hi,

is the fuse.ko present under /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko ?

//Zdenek

Because your system is older than RHEL 5.3, you may need to install the kmod-fuse package from ELRepo.

I navigate to directory "/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/kernel/fs" but I don't see any fuse directory in it! Is there something amiss?

Hey Akemi, thanks! I installed the kmod-fuse package and the hdd is able to be mounted now. You saved the day :)

Glad to hear it worked.

elrepo-release-5-6.el5.elrepo.noarch... Does this one contain kmod-fuse ? Installing epel-release-5-4.noarch could not resolve fuse .

My kernel is 2.6.18-92.el5

yum install fuse modprobe fuse

yields : "Module fuse not found"

Hi Akemi, Also I read on a forum that NTFS file sys is more reliable than ExFS. Which one is better according to you. I have heard that chances of xfs getting corrupt are higher (than NTFS). Is that statement true in any way?

Hi. I'm having same problem with RHEL workstation 7.5, kernel 3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64.

I did installed latest ntfs-3g package, fuse is installed. I can format an external disk/usb stick in NTFS format but still cannot mount NTFS partitions. modprobe still report module ntfs-3g not found.

Any idea ?

Thanks in advance. Pietro

OK, I solved it myself. I found a similar problem on Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1401158 where they were mentioning libntfs-3g.so.87 installed under lib and lib64 (two conflicting version: one 64 the other 32 bit). I removed the one under /lib and now it is working.

Pietro

Any idea if fuse is supported on an older release - RHEL 4.x ?

I was successful in getting NTFS-3g FS to mount on my RHEL 5.

I later tried to apply the same procedure to my RHEL 4 machine but was not successful. Can this be applied to RHEL 4 ?

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