How to mount a USB hard drive in NTFS file format in RHEL5

Many installation software will be stored in a USB hard disk. In Windows, this means that the USB hard drive must be in NTFS format, because the maximum file size in FAT32 format is 4 GB. However, there will be new problems here, because in RHEL5, NTFS format is not supported by default. In other words, you cannot mount a USB hard disk in NTFS format. However, here is a workaround und called 'ntfs-3g '. To make it take effect, you must install the following RPM package. NOTE:

Many installation software will be stored in a USB hard disk. In Windows, this means that the USB hard drive must be in NTFS format, because the maximum file size in FAT32 format is 4 GB. However, there will be new problems here, because in RHEL5, NTFS format is not supported by default. In other words, you cannot mount a USB hard disk in NTFS format. However, there is a benefit (work around und) called 'ntfs-3g '. To make it take effect, you must install the following RPM package.

NOTE:The version used must match the Linux kernerl module. You can use uname-r to view the kernel version. First, the kernel module must match your kernel.

# Uname-r

2.6.18-308.16.1.el5

• Fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-308.16.1.el5-2.7.4-8_12.el5.x86_64.rpm
• Fuse-2.7.4-8_12.el5.x86_64.rpm
• Fuse-libs-2.7.4-8_12.el5.x86_64.rpm
• Fuse-ntfs-3g-1.1004-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

 

• Download fuse & ntfs-3g:

Fuse: get it from http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/fuse/
Ntfs-3g: get it from http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fuse-ntfs-3g/

• Install fuse parts:

# Rps-ivh fuse-2.7.4-8_12.el5.x86_64.rpm \
> Fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-308.16.1.el5-2.7.4-8_12.el5.x86_64.rpm \
> Fuse-libs-2.7.4-8_12.el5.x86_64.rpm

• Install fuse-ntfs-3g:

# Rpm-ivh fuse-ntfs-3g-1.1004-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

• Insert the USB hard drive to the LINUX server and mount it..

# Mount. ntfs-3g/dev/sda1/media/ntfs

 

The mounted partition, for example,/dev/sda1, must be loaded into such a partition.

Mounting NTFS hard drive http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2013-08/88721.htm in Linux

Mount Windows NTFS partition ntfs-3g with http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2012-09/70787.htm under CentOS 6.3

Read and Write NTFS format partition in Gentoo Linux (ntfs-3g solves the problem of NTFS read-only non-write) http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2012-02/52947.htm

Mount NTFS partition U disk and mobile hard disk NTFS-3G with http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2014-06/103189.htm in Linux

For more information about RedHat, see RedHat topic page http://www.linuxidc.com/topicnews.aspx? Tid = 10

This article permanently updates the link address: Http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2014-08/105049.htm