Monday, May 24, 2021

How to access NTFS file system on CentOS 8 / RHEL


This tutorial will show you how to mount an NTFS drive in a  read/write mode on CentOS and other RHEL based Linux operating systems with ntfs-3g driver. NTFS-3G is a stable Open Source NTFS driver that supports reading and writing to NTFS drives on Linux and other operating systems.

The ntfs-3g driver is available in the EPEL repository. The first step is to install and activate EPEL on your Linux system.

Step 1: Enable the EPEL repository


Run the following command as root user on the shell to enable the EPEL repository. EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a set of additional high quality packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL).

# yum install epel-release


Step 2: Install ntfs-3g driver

install the ntfs-3g package with yum using the following command:
 

# yum install ntfs-3g

Once installed, you can access your external device used in windows operating system like pendrive and externam hard drive.

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