i cannot mount a ntfs partition

jschiwal · 07-15-2007, 05:52 AM

Enter "lsmod | grep ntfs" to see if the ntfs module is loaded.

krassi · 07-19-2007, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by skimeer

Thanks for the reply but it can't work Does it need some extra package to mount Ntfs in rhel5

thank's again

Here are the install packages for RHEL.
You can also go to the official site of ntfs-3g. They have very simple instructions for mounting, fstab entries and so on.

When you start installing it will tell you if you need any additional packages installed - most probably 'fuse', 'fuse-utils', 'libfuse2', 'libntfs-3g', etc.

linx win · 07-23-2007, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by skimeer

Thanks for the reply but it can't work Does it need some extra package to mount Ntfs in rhel5

thank's again

If you want to mount it for reading only, you do not need any additional package in any linux distro. But if you want to mount it for read and write you need ntfs-3g package.However, ntfs-3g is still experimental.

Junior Hacker · 07-23-2007, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by linx win

However, ntfs-3g is still experimental.

Below is a quote from the ntfs-3g web site, anything at or above version 1.0 is not considered "experimental".

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The latest stable version is 1.710, released on July 10, 2007

linx win · 07-27-2007, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Junior Hacker

Below is a quote from the ntfs-3g web site, anything at or above version 1.0 is not considered "experimental".

Thanks for the info.

krassi · 07-27-2007, 06:03 PM

By the way, everybody using ntfs-3g with kernels < 2.6.20 will be getting an error from fuse every time you mount something with ntfs-3g. Don't worry about it too much. I've been using ntfs-3g on openSuSE 10.2 x86_64 for a few months now, as well as on a Debian 4 etch x86_64 and I've had no problems with my windows drives.

linx win · 07-28-2007, 02:55 AM

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Originally Posted by krassi

By the way, everybody using ntfs-3g with kernels < 2.6.20 will be getting an error from fuse every time you mount something with ntfs-3g. Don't worry about it too much. I've been using ntfs-3g on openSuSE 10.2 x86_64 for a few months now, as well as on a Debian 4 etch x86_64 and I've had no problems with my windows drives.

You can stop these messages by upgrading fuse-utils.

krassi · 07-28-2007, 01:40 PM

Well I went a step further ..... to Lenny with 2.6.21 kernel. Thanks for the suggestion though - I will test it on my openSuSE since it is still on 2.6.18. I am using Lenny as base mostly because of the kernel - k8temp is not available on 2.6.18 and I have an OC'd processor: Athlon64 3000+ (Venice) running on 1980 MHz. I'll be testing the next step up this week.

HF!
Krassi