This tutorial is going to guide you how to format a disk into NTFS file system on ClearOS system. I am using ClearOS 6.6 on this tutorial. In order to format a disk or partition on ClearOS 6.6, we need to do several things to make sure ClearOS has all the dependency files to format a disk to NTFS file system.
First, we need to enable EPEL repository
Log in to ClearOS web dashboard and go to System | Software Repository. Make sure you enable the clearos-epel repository on that page.
Now, we need to install additional packages. You can connect to the ClearOS server via SSH or using Putty (Windows) and then execute this command.
su
yum install ntfsprogs ntfsprogs-gnomevfs
Next, you can format your partition using the following command
mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdb1
change /dev/sdb1 with your actual partition.
