Cant mount NTFS Hard drive
 

I just installed Redhat 9.0 and i can't mount my ntfs hard drive

This is the message that i get when I try and mount the drive


fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

First - post your /etc/fstab file with

su
root password

kedit /etc/fstab

Here's some info to keep in mind for later :

To mount a NTFS filesystem on Boot-up were all users have Read access, put an entry at the bottom of your /etc/fstab file on a new line - (just substitute in your Partition, Mount point and User ID Number ( uid ) in place of my example ones)

You can get your User ID Number by becoming Root user on the command line and typing:

id username – (substitute username with Aaron or Sofie or whatever your username is)

( Red Hat currently doesn’t include a NTFS driver because of uncertainties surrounding the legal status of the driver)

So - to READ a NTFS partition from Red Hat, you can either:

• Download and install an RPM – or
  
• Compile your kernel

Your best just getting the relevant RPM - Check out this site for an RPM

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html

This is my fstab file

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

This hard drive was not installed when i installed redhat.

Have you got 2 drives? - if so whats on the first one - whats on the second one?

The first drive has linux
one root partition
one swap partition

the second drive had windows xp
one ntfs partition

got it working just had to install the ntfs rpm package

thanks for the help