How To Install ntfsprogs on Fedora 34

ntfsprogs is NTFS filesystem libraries and utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ntfsprogs on Fedora 34.

What is ntfsprogs

The ntfsprogs package currently consists of a library and utilities such as mkntfs, ntfscat, ntfsls, ntfsresize, and ntfsundelete (for a full list of included utilities see man 8 ntfsprogs after installation).

We can use yum or dnf to install ntfsprogs on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ntfsprogs.

Install ntfsprogs on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ntfsprogs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ntfsprogs

Install ntfsprogs on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ntfsprogs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ntfsprogs

How To Uninstall ntfsprogs on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the ntfsprogs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ntfsprogs

ntfsprogs Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ntfscat
/usr/bin/ntfsck
/usr/bin/ntfscluster
/usr/bin/ntfscmp
/usr/bin/ntfsdecrypt
/usr/bin/ntfsdump_logfile
/usr/bin/ntfsfallocate
/usr/bin/ntfsfix
/usr/bin/ntfsinfo
/usr/bin/ntfsls
/usr/bin/ntfsmftalloc
/usr/bin/ntfsmove
/usr/bin/ntfsrecover
/usr/bin/ntfssecaudit
/usr/bin/ntfstruncate
/usr/bin/ntfsusermap
/usr/bin/ntfswipe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/dd0f7e0308fdae2e8049e7c368f90dacb59c3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/23
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/7b9759a22c1f11fc6d867f7c81d74746a360a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/859327e78c50bc87cd7a04c0ab54e1b33707dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/fdd80e3e0966afe43aa028545419b1d3b4ac09
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/d53af8edd5103ca23eb2a1c981ce5f5aacb7c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/610ec72cc5f5b4a479654e5448aed349a600ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/67302e7c42fae8967eb283912b75bc045c8978
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/42372dc3ee0f5463234fca9a2031be8eb4f608
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/a0e86597241c340d67c69af7daf282815b48f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/6782721751809dc20a4cbf0ff37abb5db902da
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/903cfbbe9485de0c14a6916eebe6a989a53cb1
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/ce08d8e4385558feac72a7f1181d481426608f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/3e7831eba5b35c7d756215d588767f7caff67a
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/981dcb86a111a4ffb7fe204dba24df062f7f70
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/6ca0853177697406cf7529a566d497cf53d0fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/902c92c2ab063b6b3acfdd3b2dfe7800544b64
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/3ed276402150f039d541b76b7a0c99b7395947
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/17dee8741863414d9a2395a6302c944bceb304
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/aef797564a83c951434ac50e2fb032f1c486a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/6a7703b5907e4dd0f91f7b5b80fa2a2abec317
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/11ca4a35866c45b56e72bef950543d37872b88
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/39b20c55836302778e9a0e726a2f41f4451efe
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/e82adf721dbb0ace8bc8240994c0a410322e82
/usr/sbin/fsck.ntfs
/usr/sbin/mkfs.ntfs
/usr/sbin/mkntfs
/usr/sbin/ntfsclone
/usr/sbin/ntfscp
/usr/sbin/ntfslabel
/usr/sbin/ntfsresize
/usr/sbin/ntfsundelete
/usr/share/doc/ntfsprogs
/usr/share/doc/ntfsprogs/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ntfsprogs/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/ntfsprogs/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ntfsprogs/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ntfsprogs/README
/usr/share/licenses/ntfsprogs
/usr/share/licenses/ntfsprogs/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.ntfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mkntfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfscat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfsclone.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfscluster.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfscmp.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfscp.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfsdecrypt.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfsfallocate.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfsfix.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfsinfo.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfslabel.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfsls.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfsprogs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfsrecover.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfsresize.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfssecaudit.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfstruncate.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfsundelete.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfsusermap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntfswipe.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ntfsprogs on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.