[CentOS] ntfs support

Sat Feb 1 09:31:19 UTC 2020
wwp <subscript at free.fr>

Hello Richmond,


On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 09:03:51 +0000 Richmond <dnomhcir at 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,

-- 
wwp
https://useplaintext.email/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20200201/6873d8e9/attachment-0005.sig>