Mounting ntfs in Fedora core 6

Can someone help me mount my ntfs partion in fedora core 6?

Fedora can't mount ntfs partition unless you install the ntfs support.

I'll show you how to get read/write access to your ntfs partitions.

Open a command console: (make sure extra repository is available in yum)

su -
yum -y install fuse fuse-libs fuse-devel ntfs-3g
modprobe fuse
lsmod

Create a mount point for you ntfs partition. In my example /windows/C

so in a console again:

su
mkdir /windows/C

Edit /etc/fstab and add a line at the and of the file (not forgetting to press enter at the end of the line), similar to the one below:

/dev/hda1  /windows/C  ntfs-3g	silent,umask=0002,utf8=true

Reboot your computer and you should have access to your ntfs partition.

Fedora can't mount ntfs partition unless you install the ntfs support.

Why, because read support not included with the stock kernel?

No it's not, you have to install the ntfs support as a module.

Ok, thnx. I'm getting ready to try FC6 and was just curious as to how it works.

Don't let the fact that you have to install an ntfs, or ntfs-3g push you away from trying Fedora Core 6, in my opinion, Fedora Core 6 is probably the best Fedora release yet.

I need help on read/write access of my NTFS partition in Fedora 6. I did the steps as suggested here by glussier, but I am facing some problem.

a) I had initially installed read access of my windows drive and my present fstab has this entry at the last line.
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0

b) After installing ntfs-3g as specified, when I am trying to put this line
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g silent,umask=0002,utf8=true

as against the earlier line and reboot, I am getting error saying /dev/fuse write permission error, while booting.

Can you suggest what should I do or where I am going wrong?

HI all
@arindom: u can use below command to mount ur ntfs partition if u use Fedora 6.0 (me too)

#sudo ./mount.ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/Windows
u can read/write

@Everyone
i have a small question
i can muont and can read/write/execute all file on Ntfs partition.But after reboot i must type again above command if i want use ntfs part.
So, have anyway can help my machine auto mount Ntfs partition after reboot ?

Thanks for any reply

Add an entry to your /etc/fstab file for your NTFS partition. See this and man fstab for some info.

Hi. If I mount from root, it works great (read+write).

But if I try to mount it from my user, I get some "permission denied" errors:

bash-3.1$ mount /extern
Error opening partition device: Permission denied
Failed to startup volume: Permission denied
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Permission denied

This is my fstab:

bash-3.1$ cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/hda5               /dati                   vfat    defaults,user,umask=000         0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda2               /win                    vfat    defaults,user,umask=000         0 0
LABEL=SWAP-hda6         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/sda1               /extern                 ntfs-3g defaults,silent,force,umask=0000,utf8=true,users,exec,rw        0 0

As you can see, I have tried to put every option I knew in the last line but it still doesn't word! Can anybody help me?

Still it is not working, I can mount from prompt but when I am adding the following line in my /etc/fstab same problem persists.

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g silent,umask=0002,utf8=true

Kindly suggest further action.

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-hdh2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdf1 /mnt/Backup ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/hdf5 /mnt/Backup2 ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/hdf6 /mnt/Emulation ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/C ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask-0000 0 0
/dev/hde6 /mnt/hd ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdg6 /mnt/hd0 ext3 defaults 0 0

hi,
i too have the same,even had a thread for it in security forum.The problem is due to selinux.

LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Linux > Linux - Security > selinux troubles from mounting foreign partitions

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#selinux

try using audit2allow command

regards,
Nirmal Tom

I tried the following command and got the error :

# audit2allow -M local < /var/log/audit/audit.log

-----------------Error-----------------
audit2allow -M local < /var/log/messages
/usr/bin/audit2allow: -M Requires the checkmodule command, you need to install the checkpolicy rpm package
----------------------------------------

Then I have installed the same by

# yum install checkpolicy

It installed successfully and then again I used the audit2allow command and got the following error message

-----------------Error------------------
Generating type enforcment file: local.te
Compiling policy
checkmodule -M -m -o local.mod local.te
/usr/bin/audit2allow: (unknown source)::WARNING 'unrecognized character' at token '=' on line 4:
class chr_file { DriveReady Error LastFailedSense=0x03 SeekComplete read write };
require {
(unknown source)::ERROR 'syntax error' at token '0' on line 4:
class chr_file { DriveReady Error LastFailedSense=0x03 SeekComplete read write };
require {
checkmodule: error(s) encountered while parsing configuration
checkmodule: loading policy configuration from local.te
-------------------------------------------

As advised by SeLinux I am ignoring the error and continuing. Hopefully this time I will not be required to unmount manually.

I will update again about the result.

EDIT
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No, even after this I have to unmount manually before shutdown. The error message has something calle "APC error". I am not sure of the message because by then the PC is off. There is nothing in /var/log/messages.

Originally Posted by salvatruco LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-hdh2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdf1 /mnt/Backup ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0 /dev/hdf5 /mnt/Backup2 ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0 /dev/hdf6 /mnt/Emulation ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/C ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask-0000 0 0 /dev/hde6 /mnt/hd ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdg6 /mnt/hd0 ext3 defaults 0 0

Thanks for your reply, but it is not working with me. Still I have to unmount Windows partition as root before shutting down. May be the SELinux trick works.