I have ntfs-3g installed, and have a 500GB Western Digital drive formatted to nfts with some data on it that I wanted to push over to my CentOS box. I am running 5.5 (latest build).

Whenever I try to mount the drive (yes, I have followed ALL instructions I could find online, including the CentOS FAQ about mounting ntfs drives), I just get the following error:

I am happy to supply you guys with the contents of my fstab file (yes, I have the drive added), as well as any other information you may want. FUSE is installed and updated to the latest version.

I have tried a number of different solutions from Googling, etc. and I just cannot seem to get this to work. Anyone have any thoughts?

Perhaps a silly question, but have you checked to make sure that NTFS-3G itself is installed? FUSE is a requirement of NTFS-3G, but they are two separate packages; you could have FUSE installed but not NTFS-3G.

Have you tried calling "ntfs-3g" directly, rather than using "mount -t"? See if it works when you just run "ntfs-3g" with the device node and mount point, like so:

I had not tried calling ntfs-3g directly, clever idea. I just called it, and got the following message:

I followed the instructions here - forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that install both fuse and ntfs-3g?

The command:

Should have installed NTFS-3G and FUSE, as you said. But the fact that you can't run the "ntfs-3g" program itself would seem to indicate that it is not installed after all, which is strange. Did yum give you any odd messages or errors when you attempted to install those packages?

Have you tried re-running that yum command? See what it says when you attempt to re-install those two packages.

You don't need to use ntfs-3g if all you want to do is mount it read only.

After uninstalling the rpm and re-installing it, it appears as though it is only installing fuse, and just skipping right over ntfs-3g. It returns the following:

I am running the plus kernel, which claims to have ntfs-3g built in, but I upgraded to the plus kernel post-installation. I don't think this should matter. If anything, it would mean that ntfs-3g is pre-installed and I wouldn't be getting any of these errors.

I've re-installed only fuse, since ntfs-3g won't actually install. I am a bit puzzled as to where to go next. It doesn't seem like there's another command to install ntfs-3g. Do I need to ./configure and make this myself? There is the repo that I can snag it from and try.

Thinking back on everything, I believe that it's not installing ntfs-3g because I don't have rpmforge added to my rpm's. I have attempted to install and add the rpm, and it won't let me, claiming that the repo isn't found. Now it's a whole new problem :/

Have you tried the second command in that HowTo, which mentions activating the third party repositories (RPMForge):

Also, jefro does have a point, If you just want to read an NTFS volume, the kernel's built in support should be able to do that much for you. You just need NTFS-3G to get full read/write access to NTFS, which it seems like maybe you don't actually need in this case.

I did run that command, and it didn't like rpmforge, gave the error that it couldn't find it. I tried a few other install methods, and I finally fixed it.

I followed these instructions to get the rpmforge repo installed, and now I am installing ntfs-3g.

For some odd reason, the kernel wasn't giving me support for any ntfs volumes, and I'd like to be able to write these volumes as well, so the extra little bit of work was worth it.

Thanks MS3 for getting me past that block, and making me realize what the issue was here, lol. You guys rock

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The problem looks like it is that you are using 5.5 and 5.6 is the current only supported by cent
reboot

make SURE that the rpmforge repo is installed
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalRes...t=Repositories
-- repo--
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalRes...ories/RPMForge

then install ntfs-3g
reboot

Thanks for your reply, John. I am actually running 5.6 - my mistake with the typo. There are no updates to be done

You were exactly right, I had to install the rpmforge repo and that took care of the errors and non-existant package markings I was getting back from yum. Everything's all set and happily reading & writing along!