Unable to mount NTFS file system in oracle enterprise linux 5
Unable to mount NTFS file system in oracle enterprise linux 5 Applies to: Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 Database 11gR2 Description: I am using Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5, I am trying to mount a NTFS file system USB drive on linux but unable to succeed and got the following error: mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdrive/ mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs' Solution: After some research work I found that install the FUSE and NTFS-3G packages to resolve the issue. You can download the packages from: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fuse-ntfs-3g/ http://packages.sw.be/fuse-ntfs-3g/ To check the package installed or not: rpm -qa |grep fuse To install the packages execute the folloiwng: rpm -ivh fuse-2.6.3-1.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -ivh fuse-ntfs-3g-2010.5.22-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm After successfull installation of packages I can mount the NTFS USB drive successfully: mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdrive/