Compiled kernels with FUSE & NTFS support for CentOS 5.1?

DanSK · 03-13-2008, 02:02 PM

I'm running CentOS 5.1 on a x86_64 system, and need to enable ntfs support for USB-pluggable drives.

I have installed all the relevant fuse-ntfs-3g packages (and also tried the dkms ntfs stuff), but nothing works. modprobe wont load the module:

# /sbin/modprobe fuse
FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.14.el5/weak-updates/fuse.ko': No such file or directory

From some other posts, it became apparent my kernel was not compiled with support for fuse:

# grep -i fuse /boot/config-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
# CONFIG_FUSE_FS is not set

(I have the latest CentOS 5 kernel, along with the relevant kernel-devel and headers packages).

Question: Is there some easy way to find and install a kernel package that already has FUSE support compiled in to it? Or do I actually have to recompile the kernel myself? Or is there some other easy way around this?

Thanks!

kennylai44 · 03-13-2008, 10:02 PM

You can use ATRPMS repository to avoid complex compile or others job. Any how FUSE for kernel 2.6.18-53.xx currently still under testing. I suggest that you begin with the SPEC file from ATRPMS (download it from ATrpm web site) as the begin then study the features/options that available then choice your own & putting it into the new HOMEMAKE Spec & compile into RPM . I usually follow this method to get away from library depency that make me sick.

ncsuapex · 03-16-2008, 08:45 PM

I was able to get NTFS support on a centos 5 install(2.6.18-53.1.4.el5) using

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions

But I am having problems getting NTFS support for a fresh install of Centos 5 on another PC.

rpm -q centos-release
centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1
# uname -r
2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen

This is fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdd: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

dmesg

dmesg | grep hdd
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1100-0x1107, BIOS settings: hdc

io, hdd

io
hdd: ST360020A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: max request size: 128KiB
hdd: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdd: cache flushes not supported
hdd: hdd1

error:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdd /mnt/hdd1

NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/hdd': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/hdd' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?

ncsuapex · 03-17-2008, 12:32 PM

ok.. I put my ntfs drive back in my 1st install of centos and Im getting the same error.

I also installed http://sourceforge.net/project/downl...3.1-1.i586.rpm

and getting the same error when I try to mount with it.

any suggestions?

hendra.uzia · 07-23-2008, 06:40 PM

Hi DanSK,

You can mount ntfs easly with ntfsprogs, no more touching kernels, recompiling, or even restarting.
Here a few steps you can follow, I found it from linux-ntfs:

Here the link:[html]
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsmount[/html] First of all you need to download FUSE. Then:

Code:

tar zxvf fuse-2.7.0.tar.gz
cd fuse-2.7.0
./configure && make && sudo make install

Then you need to install ntfsprogs:

Code:

tar zxvf ntfsprogs-2.0.0.tar.gz
cd ntfsprogs-2.0.0
./configure --enable-fuse-module && make && sudo make install

And then, here's to mount ntfs:
Create a directory to mount your volume to:

Code:

mkdir /mnt/c

Mount your volume:

Code:

ntfsmount /dev/hda1 /mnt/c

Please be sure that you download the latest stable packages for best performance.
And don't forget to visit:
[html]http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsmount[/html]or

Code:

man ntfsmount

to get a more comprehensive guide.

Happy _ Linux

Micro420 · 07-23-2008, 06:43 PM

CentOS does not come with Fuse or NTFS-3g built-in. You need to download it.

download fuse source code
./configure --exec-prefix=/ && make && make install

download ntfs-3g source code
./configure && make && make install

to mount:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdX# /mnt/destination

You are done. I've done this on most of my CentOS servers and it works. IT WORKS!! IT WORKS!!!!!!!