how to get NTFS installed in fedora 6
 

i am working in fedora core 6. few days ago i bought a portable hard disk which works through NTFS. so it is not mounting in my system as my system does not support NTFS. how can i make my system NTFS compatible. please help.

FC6 uses a thing called "ntfs-3g" rather than the ntfs module.

Note: FC6 is legacy - it will be difficult to get additional software for it. You need to install a more recent OS. In five days, f9 is out.

To get read/write access on NTFS filesystems you need the following packages: yum install fuse fuse-libs ntfs-3g ntfsprogs ntfsprogs-gnomevfs I don't know if you can still get updates through yum for Fedora Core 6. You can try as root: yum install yum install fuse fuse-libs ntfs-3g ntfsprogs ntfsprogs-gnomevfs If it doesn't work download the above packages from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...inux/extras/6/ and install them with rpm -hiv ntfs*.rpm fuse*.rpm as root again. Then check this guide http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/...win_partitions It's about Fedora 8 but I believe you'll be ok.

Better solution: Put all shared data on ext3 and access it form Windows using something like the ext2fsd driver.

Reformatting the external drive to something with decent free software support is a good idea - however, what kind of device is this? Many NAS devices use ntfs and some onboard things which don't like changes...