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Old 02-02-2014, 07:24 AM   #1
mehrd@d
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Mounting an external hard drive


HI
I just bought a external hard disk ,
and connect it to my fedora but the problem I think is that the format of that is ntfs .


NOW can any body show me a way to mount it and use my data in it.


THANK YOU ALL.
 
Old 02-02-2014, 08:46 AM   #2
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If you don't have any data on the disk, you can simply partition it using fdisk(8) or parted(8)
and then format the partitions using mkfs(8). A convenient layout is to have a
vfat or ntfs partition to share data with Windows machines and another partition with a native
Linux format such as ext3-4,xfs or jfs. To facilitate mounting the partitions, you can add them to
/etc/fstab(5) with their label or uuid.

If you have data on the disk, you should check your kernel version with uname -a and inspect the content of
/proc/filesystems. Reasonably recent versions of Linux are able to access ntfs filesystems. If your kernel
does not support ntfs, you should check whether you have the proper kernel module installed, and if not
install it from the Fedora repo (or from ElRepo).
 
Old 02-02-2014, 10:58 AM   #3
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Do you have ntfs-3g installed?
 
Old 02-02-2014, 09:35 PM   #4
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https://www.google.com/search?q=linu...m=119&ie=UTF-8

did you try google before asking? what have you tried? what have you done, what has happened, what errors are you getting, what distro are you using, are you trying to mount via the automagically mount in a GUI, if so what GUI, are you trying to manually mount via CLI as user? if so then stop using user and su - to root and do the job properly.
 
  


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