fedora core 3 ntfs mounting

rusty_slacker · 07-03-2005, 06:48 PM

i have an fc3/win2k dual boot. how do i enable mounting of the ntfs partition?

aggrosk8rdude · 07-03-2005, 06:56 PM

i've never used fc before but this should be pretty standard:

Code:

echo "/dev/hda1 /mnt/win ntfs users,auto,uid=bob,gid=users 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

where hda1 is your nfts partition and you want to mount it as /mnt/win. bob is your userid so change that.

This should automount your partition when you boot up, but otherwise you can use
mount | umount /mnt/win to mount or unmount it.

btmiller · 07-03-2005, 08:20 PM

Also make sure you have the necessary NTFS kernel module installed into your kernel before trying to mount an NTFS partition.

Michael Johnson · 07-03-2005, 08:34 PM

I have had problems using names instead of numbers for the uid and the gid.
uid is the user id of the user who will own the mount
gid is the id of the group who will have group access.
you can obtain the required numbers by looking in /etc/passwd for uid and /etc/group for the group id.

RemusX2 · 07-05-2005, 10:04 PM

You can either compile it into the kernel or you can do go here http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/index.html and read about it. I've found that to be the easy if you don't know/want to recompile the kernel.

rusty_slacker · 07-06-2005, 05:23 PM

thanks guys. i'll be doing that this weekend.