Mounting a NTFS drive on Fedora C4

Felpipe · 04-11-2006, 05:32 PM

ok This is the thing

Im trying to mount a NTFS drive on Fedora, Already did the yum thing and run in the terminal "yum install kernel-module-ntfs-$(uname -r)"

now, I can see the NTFS drive on the Harwdware Browser and all but When I go to my Computer the drive is not there....

I guess I only need to map the drive or something like that... can any1 help me out?

Any Comment would be appreciated.
thx

Last Attacker · 04-11-2006, 06:12 PM

Where in My Computer?
Remember to go to that location where the path was mapped to.
You can't open My Computer and expect that the mapped NFS drive to be at its starting page.
If you mapped it to: /mnt/mymap
Then in My Computer's address bar type in: /mnt
and look for 'mymap'.

Don't mean to undermine your intelligence, its just that us people sometimes forget the basics or something.

Hope it helps.

Felpipe · 04-11-2006, 06:33 PM

Im actually glad some1 is helping me Im a NewBie !

anyway please see this screen shot

http://felpipe.com/Screenshot.png

The thing is that I Dont know the location and when I ran those commands it never asked me anything so I assumed it would map it into my computer.

I visited the /mnt route and its empty.

I hope the screenshot can tell you more about my problem.

thx for helping me.

ScottReed · 04-11-2006, 08:54 PM

Hi,

From command line or xterm and as root:

Code:

mkdir /mnt/ntfs
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs
cd /mnt/ntfs
ls -l

There ya go, you should be looking at the contents of your NTFS partition, read-only.

If you recieve "please specify the filesystem type" when you type the 'mount' command, than the ntfs module is not loaded.

Code:

modprobe ntfs

Good luck,
Scott

Felpipe · 04-11-2006, 09:23 PM

Thx very much.... Im running the commands u told me and I get this.

[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

I went to /mnt/ntfs and the rout is empty.

I dont know if this matters at all but in the USER MOUNT TOOL as u can see in the Screenshot the device "/dev/sda" is nos listed... Phisically the route /dev/sda does not exist either...

Im downloading as we speak Fedora C5, is it pretty much the same mounting NTFS drives on that version ?

thx

Last Attacker · 04-12-2006, 03:28 AM

O no, I thought that you were talking about NFS, not NTFS!
Sorry!
Luckily in SuSE its automatically picked up by installation, etc.
I havn't worked with Red Hat before except when we did a class on Linux Administration but it was all Apache, Samba, etc. stuff.
As a suggestion, check if your Red Hat kernel was compiled with the NTFS module.
I hope its the same as Suse.
In your console type:

cd /usr/src/linux
su <then type in your admin pass>
make menuconfig <don't worry we're just going to check, not compile>

If you see a DOS-like menu system then you're on the right track.
Scroll down to "File Systems --->"
Scroll down till you see "DOS/FAT/NT File systems --->"
Check if you have an <M> or <*> before this entry "NTFS file system support"

Now just press the right arrow followed by an enter the whole time to exit each menu.
Don't save your kernel configuration <Just say No>!

If you found it entirely different, please let me know!
Well one things for sure, if you don't find a <*> or atleast a <M> next to "NTFS file system support", you can't read or write NTFS partitions.

Hope this helps!

ScottReed · 04-12-2006, 12:13 PM

Ok, you deffinately don't have the NTFS module compiled or loaded.

What does 'modprobe ntfs' return? That will tell you for sure. Or you could go through the steps provided by LastAttacker.

As for your screenshot and /dev/sda, according to that screenshot your system is picking up the presence of /dev/sda which contains ONE parition /dev/sda1 and it is NTFS.

Understand that if you for example plug in a usb drive someday BEFORE your ntfs drive, your NTFS drive will now be /dev/sdb etc... understand?

when you plug in the drives type 'dmesg' and it will tell you what device the newly attached drive is assigned to.

Scott

mista_chewey · 04-19-2006, 01:41 AM

im a newb too but i got my ntfs partition to mount on fedora core 5.
i just had to go to www.linux-ntfs.org
to get the patch for the kernel.
followed the instructions and was able to mount it after typing the mount command in the shell. but i am still working on permanently mounting it.
hopes that help you...i can't give you anymore advice seeing how im crawling along myself