Yesterday evening I got the message. I still have a 15 years old external hardware. My father bought this hardware for its Microsoft Windows 10 pc. Because of this external drive is still working, I wanted to share some files with my AlmaLinux notebook.

On Fedora 42 I have the kernel 6.17.4 and there the external drive could connect to Fedora and I could transfer the files.

Later I wanted to connect it with my AlmaLinux notebook. But I got this error message:

Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /run/media/skramer/MyDrive: Filesystem type ntfs3, ntfs not configured in kernel was the error message in the nautilus browser.

On AlmaLinux, I have the kernel: 5.14.0-570.60.1.el9_6.

This kernel could not recognize the external drive.

Troubleshooting steps, to solve the problem

✅ sudo dnf install epel-release

✅ sudo dnf install ntfs-3g

After this, it has worked. I could get connect to the external drive and could download the files to the notebook.