Add NTFS support to ClearOS 6.4

In order to read or mount an NTFS disk drive under ClearOS, we need to install additional package which is not installed by default on ClearOS. The package needed to read NTFS disk on ClearOS is fuse-ntfs-3g.

The NTFS-3G driver is a safe read/write NTFS driver for Linux, Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, QNX, Windows and Haiku, providing fast and POSIX handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista and Windows 7 file system

To install fuse-ntfs-3g, use the following command

yum install fuse-ntfs-3g

Installing:
ntfs-3g                                               i686

Transaction Summary
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Install       1 Package(s)

Total download size: 284 k
Installed size: 648 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
ntfs-3g-2011.4.12-5.el6.i686.rpm
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : 2:ntfs-3g-2011.4.12-5.el6.i686
  Verifying  : 2:ntfs-3g-2011.4.12-5.el6.i686

Installed:
  ntfs-3g.i686 2:2011.4.12-5.el6

Complete!

Once finished, you can start mount an NTFS formatted disk easily. For example, a NTFS disk is recognized as /dev/sdb1 and you want to mount it to /mnt/disk1, you can execute this command

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/disk1

Its pretty easy right?