Hello,

After uname -rm command I get this info:
2.6.14-1.1656_FC4smp i686

So - I installed from this page:

2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 i686-smp Multi Processor rpm.

And this is how my /etc/fstab looks like:

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This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/win-c ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /mnt/win-d ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0

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Output of fdisk -l looks like that:

[root@localhost chefren]# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 37.0 GB, 37019566080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4500 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3084 24772198+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3085 3097 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 3098 4500 11269597+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2 14593 117210240 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 2 14593 117210208+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Anyway - the actual mount folders (win-c, win-d) are empty.

What can be brong?

Am I missing something?

Greets

You mean you installed kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.656_FC4smp ? This is the rpm you need to get read access to your ntfs filesystem. Please try typing 'rpm -q kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.656_FC4smp' at the command prompt. If you get a message back saying 'package kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.656_FC4smp is not installed', then that is the cause of your problem. Another tell-tale sign would be during the boot sequence, you probably get an error on the disk mounting stage, telling you that ntfs is an unknown filesystem or something similar.

My guess is that you need to install the kernel module, the easiest way (if you use yum) is to bring up a root prompt, and type 'yum install kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.656_FC4smp'. Post back if that doesn't work.

Take a look at this:

[root@localhost chefren]# rpm -q kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.656_FC4smp
package kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.656_FC4smp is not installed
[root@localhost chefren]# yum install kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.656_FC4smp
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 424 kB 00:06
updates-re: ################################################## 1192/1192
Added 5 new packages, deleted 9 old in 2.44 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 991 kB 00:13
extras : ################################################## 2877/2877
Added 81 new packages, deleted 10 old in 4.45 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.656_FC4smp
Nothing to do
[root@localhost chefren]# ls

I downloaded the package maually and tried to install it via the rpm -ivh command
and got this:

[root@localhost chefren]# rpm -ivh *.rpm
kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4smp-2.1.24-0.rr.10.4.i686.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest):

So? What's going on?

Best regards,

Adam

What's more interesting, I downloaded kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.656_FC4smp-2.1.24-0.rr.10.4.i656.rpm on desktop an when I click it says that "Package is already installed". How this is possible? ( [root@localhost chefren]# rpm -q kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.656_FC4smp
package kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.656_FC4smp is not installed )

Greetz

The error you're getting from yum appears to be that rpm isn't available. As for the problem when you try to install via rpm, it looks as though something went wrong the first time you installed it. Try typing this: 'rpm -ivh --replacepkgs kernel-module-ntfs/2.6.14-1.656_FCsmp'. The --replacepkgs option forces rpm to replace any currently existing versions of files installed by that module, which has worked for me in the past when similar problems have occurred with packages I've tried to install.

Incidentally, what is the output of 'cat /proc/modules'? It should list any kernel modules you have active, including the ntfs one if it's working.

Well... I did reinstall this package and now everything works fine :-)

Thanks a lot!