NTFS not being recognized
When I try to mount my Seagate FreeAgent USB Drive, I get:
Error mounting: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
When I try to create/mount a ntfs partition on my sdb drive to be later used as a Samba share, I get:
Error creating file system: Cannot run mkfs: cannot spawn 'mkntfs -f -L "MyFiles" /dev/sdb2': Failed to execute child process "mkntfs" (No such file or directory)
I realize that I need the drivers so my system recognizes nfts files. My system is telling me I may already have them when I try to install fuse-ntfs-3g:
Package fuse-2.8.304.e16.x86_64 already installed and latest version.
Are there any other prerequisites? Please advise when you can. Thanks, Dave
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We do not ship NTFS support by default, or provide libaries which enable this support.
You may choose to enable NTFS with unsupported third-party libraries, EPEL package some.
How to enable NTFS support in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/solutions/23993
This is what I did: 1. Ensure the following 2 repos are enabled: Rhel-7-server-extras-rpms & Rhel-7-server-optional-rpms 2. Open web browser on RHEL7 box then visit: fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages, then click on the link: The newest version of ‘epel-release’ for EL7, then Install downloaded RPM, then Open terminal: yum install ntfs-3g, then 'df –h' (verify NTFS filesystem is mounted) if not, mount it: mount /dev/sd* /directory. If you get an error you might have to spell out mount ntfs-3g /mountpoint /directory 3. Copy file to NTFS directory
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