How to access NTFS/FAT drives from Fedora Core 2
 

Just wondering how to access my windows partitions from fedora core 2 in KDE/GNOME. On my box with mandrake, it did this automatically, and I am able to get all the drives, so just wanted to be able to on fedora for ease of file transfers

you must make a directory for mount point (or use any existing dir) and use command

mount /dev/hd<xx> /path/to/mountpoint

where <xx> is the partition you want (like /dev/hda1 or /dev/hdb2)

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as the above user said. Make a directory. Use a terminal, or the GUI.

In terminal: mkdir /ntfs (or whatever name you want and wherever you want it)

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /ntfs

Where /dev/hda2 is the partition ntfs is on and /ntfs is the mount directory you want your ntfs partition mounted at.

For automounting, just add a line into /etc/fstab

An example for above would be:

/dev/hda2 /ntfs ntfs ro 0 0

This should work. If it doesn't, just post the errors.

Peace!

Good luck!

Unlike Mandrake, NTFS support is not enabled by default in Fedora Core 2. So it might be necessary
to recompile th ekernel. You may check also:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ht=NTFS+Fedora

Oh, sorry about that. You can check this address too: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/

Check the instructions on that page, and they will explain how and what to do.

Peace!

Good luck!