Hello Richmond,

On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 09:03:51 +0000 Richmond dnomhcir@gmx.com wrote:

I should think this is quite a basic question but what I have tried so far hasn't worked. I have centos altarch 7 and I want to mount an ntfs volume.

(I am beginning to suspect it is not available for 32 bit so I will need to get the source and compile?)

These commands I have tried:

yum --enablerepo=extras install epel-release yum --enablerepo=extras yum install epel-release

I have enabled extras, but I don't know what epel-release is or how to enable it.

yum repolist enabled Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile  * base: mirrors.coreix.net  * extras: mirrors.coreix.net  * updates: mirrors.coreix.net repo id                                                     repo name                                                        status base/7/i386                                                 CentOS-7 - Base                                                  7,625 extras/7/i386                                               CentOS-7 - Extras                                                  257 updates/7/i386                                              CentOS-7 - Updates                                                 791 repolist: 8,673

yum search ntfs Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile  * base: mirrors.coreix.net  * extras: mirrors.coreix.net  * updates: mirrors.coreix.net Warning: No matches found for: ntfs No matches found

Definitely, ntfs-3g is from the EPEL repo: # yum info ntfs-3g Installed Packages Name : ntfs-3g Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 2 Version : 2017.3.23 Release : 11.el7 Size : 612 k Repo : installed From repo : epel Summary : Linux NTFS userspace driver URL : http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ License : GPLv2+ Description : NTFS-3G is a stable, open source, GPL licensed, POSIX, read/write NTFS : driver for Linux and many other operating systems. It provides safe : handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows : Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems. NTFS-3G can : create, remove, rename, move files, directories, hard links, and streams; : it can read and write normal and transparently compressed files, including : streams and sparse files; it can handle special files like symbolic links, : devices, and FIFOs, ACL, extended attributes; moreover it provides full : file access right and ownership support.

But it looks like whereas you installed epel-release, it's not enabled. Check if it's enabled in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo, the [epel] section should have a enabled=1 line (or run `yum install --enablerepo=epel ntfs-3g`) to enable it temporarily).

Regards,