View NTFS USB Device on Linux Machine
*This is necessary for a RHEL machine to view NTFS USB external devices
Install NTFS-3g from the EPEL Repository
- Ensure that the EPEL repository is configure on the machine
- #yum install ntfs-3g
o Install the ntfs-3g package from EPEL
Mounting USB Device on a RHEL7 Machine; if necessary
- #modprobe –r usb-storage
o Remove all usb-storage modules from kernel
- #modprobe –i usb-storage
o Install all usb-storage modules to kernel
- #dmesg
o Read all messages in kernel, look for /dev/sdb1 device
- #mount /dev/sdb1 /media
o Mounts the USB device to /media directory
- Ensure that the necessary mount point is mounted on the machine via /etc/fstab
o # vi /etc/fstab
o
o /dev/sdb1 /media ext4 defaults 0 0