Mount NTFS disk in Linux 7

Today I wanted to pass an old disk in a usb-case to my son. It was from an old Windows Laptop and even though I'm administrator, I wasn't able to read the documents in an other user's folder.

So I thought, let's do it from an Oracle Linux 7 VM, as root. But it turns out that Oracle linux did not support NTFS by default.

But with the trick in this link I managed to do it.

To sum up, especially for my self:

Add the EPEL-7 repository from Fedora:

# wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

# rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

This worked for me. Although I had to step over my issue that I add a Fedora repo to Oracle Linux.... An other option could have been (probably if under Redhat Linux or CentOS:

# yum install epel-release
...
# yum clean all
...
# yum update
...

Install the NTFS-3g package:

# yum install ntfs-3g -y

And enable NTFS support for FileManagers:

# yum install ntfsprogs -y

Then I got to the FileManager and I could browse the disk. It was mounted at '/run/media/oracle/803638DB3638D3BE'.