Mounting Windows drive in linux

sir_com · 06-30-2008, 04:08 AM

Hi,

I am trying to mount windows drive from linux (Fedora 6). The steps I am following are:

fdisk -l

mount <windows drive> /mnt

but I am getting an error called unknown file system.

I have tried this also

mount -t ntfs <windows drive> /mnt

but still getting the same error.

Any idea how to achive this....what extra module/RPM's (driver modules) I need to install.

Thanks,
sir_com

sycamorex · 06-30-2008, 04:59 AM

I'd strongly suggest that you upgrade to Fedora 9. F6 is very old, probably not supported anymore.

linuxlover.chaitanya · 06-30-2008, 05:16 AM

FC6 will not support mounting of ntfs drives by default. You will need to install ntfs-3g tool. Or either upgrade to a newer distribution.

Maligree · 06-30-2008, 05:20 AM

EDITED OUT: Late, and problem is already solved.

linuxlover.chaitanya · 06-30-2008, 05:22 AM

Yeah FC6 is too old. I don't remember but FC7 did not mount NTFS by default I guess.

sir_com · 06-30-2008, 07:16 AM

Thanks for all your responses. is ntfs-3g a graphical tool that I need to download and install in my linux box.

linuxlover.chaitanya · 06-30-2008, 07:34 AM

Yeah you will need to download the tool from www.ntfs-3g.org.
Its not a graphical tool though. You can install it from yum or apt or any other package manager that your distro may have.
Once it is installed you can man for it and go through the information on how to use it.

sir_com · 06-30-2008, 07:43 AM

Thank you all for your suggestions.

I will try this and will come back with my feedback.

Thanks Friends...............

resetreset · 07-02-2008, 05:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sir_com

Hi,

I am trying to mount windows drive from linux (Fedora 6). The steps I am following are:

fdisk -l

mount <windows drive> /mnt

but I am getting an error called unknown file system.

I have tried this also

mount -t ntfs <windows drive> /mnt

but still getting the same error.

Any idea how to achive this....what extra module/RPM's (driver modules) I need to install.

Thanks,
sir_com

I think you're supposed to put -t ntfs after the drive name. Try it.

linuxlover.chaitanya · 07-02-2008, 07:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by resetreset

I think you're supposed to put -t ntfs after the drive name. Try it.

Yes. He has tried that option. But because the distro version is too old that does not seems to be supported by default.

brianL · 07-02-2008, 08:10 AM

ntfs-3g depends on fuse, so you will need to install that as well.

http://fuse.sourceforge.net/