NTFS-3g

 

1. NTFS-3G is a stable Open-Source NTFS driver that supports reading and writing to NTFS drives on Linux and other operating systems.
2. The ntfs-3g driver is available in the EPEL repository, it is available for all RHEL-based systems like AlmaLinux, CentOS, Rocky Linux, and also RHEL itself from version 6 to 9. 

Note:-) The first step is to install and activate EPEL on your Linux system.

1. EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is an open-source and free community-based repository project from the Fedora team which provides 100% high-quality add-on software packages for Linux distribution including RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux, and Rocky Linux.
2. EPEL project is not a part of RHEL/CentOS but it is designed for major Linux distributions by providing lots of open-source packages like networking tools, sysadmin tools, programming, monitoring, and so on. Most of the EPEL packages are maintained by the Fedora repo.

Why Do We Use the EPEL Repository?

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1. Provides lots of open-source packages to install via Yum and DNF.
2. Epel repo is 100% open source and free to use.
3. It does not provide any core duplicate packages and has no compatibility issues.
4. All EPEL packages are maintained by the Fedora repo.

Note:-) Before the package of ntfs-3g if you connect ntfs type of storage device in rhel machine then you will see this error infront of your screen.

Step-1) Enable/Install the EPEL repository

[root@localhost ~]# dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

Step-2) Update the YUM Server

[root@localhost ~]# dnf update

               or

[root@localhost ~]# yum update

Step-3) Check epel install or not

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep epel

Step-4) Check ntfs-3g package install or not

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep ntfs-3g*

Step-5) Install ntfs-3g package

[root@localhost ~]# yum install ntfs-3g* -y

                or

[root@localhost ~]# yum install ntfs-3g*

                or

[root@localhost ~]# dnf install ntfs-3g* -y

                or

[root@localhost ~]# dnf install ntfs-3g*

Step-6) Verify the package of ntfs-3g install or not

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep ntfs-3g*

Step-7) Remove the package of ntfs-3g 

[root@localhost ~]# yum remove ntfs-3g* -y

                or

[root@localhost ~]# yum remove ntfs-3g*

                or

[root@localhost ~]# dnf remove ntfs-3g* -y

                or

[root@localhost ~]# dnf remove ntfs-3g*