These days NTFS support comes out of the box in most of the distros.... I dont think you ll have to install it separately....
The mount command can auto detect the file system... (please correct me if i am wrong), i never even had to give the -t option... |
I just went through this ... I had to create a custom HAL policy. I created a policy in
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-ntfs-3g.fdi In the file I added the following XML info: Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> If you use policykit, you might need to add a policy in your Policy.conf file. This is with ntfs3g installed, and using hal to handle mounts. |
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Okay so i ran yum search ntfs-3g and it said i did have it so i ran yum install ntfs-3g and it said already installed nothing to do meaning i already have it...
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Do i do this terminal???
If i really do this in terminal then do i enter each new line as an individual command or one big command? |
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$ sudo su Double check to see if the file has been created, with: Code:
# ls /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-ntfs-3g-policy.fdi |
Wow, I had so many hard times with Fedora, it was buggy, weird, and not user friendly so I just reinstalled and put the latest Ubuntu and it mounts my drives no problem with no commands required. It already has all my needed drivers, works better, starts faster. ITs 10x better for noobs then Fedora i think. Thanks for the help though, since I am new to linux I plan on wasting some DVD's so i can try a bunch of different linuxes including gentoo, pclinux, slackware, mandriva, and bunch of others just for the heck of it, but Ubuntu seems a lot more noob-friendly so I am sticking with that for now.
-THANKS for the help, its just fedora is not for a linux noob. |
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# mkdir "/mnt/mount point" # mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 "/mnt/mount point" Then, every time you want to refer to this mount point, you will have to remember to enclose the path in quotes. Over a period of years you will type so many extra quotes that you might have spent that lost time inventing a cure for cancer instead. But it's a free world and we all choose our own paths ... umm, no pun intended. The alternative is not to allow spaces in paths and file names: # mkdir /mnt/mount_point # mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/mount_point |
Well, I wont be able to do that now, because I took my hammer, smashed Fedora and put on Ubuntu and been using it so far all day, all i can say is that, it might take a bit getting used to but its interface is similar to fedora's but its way more user friendly so once I learn simple things like that then I will move to fedora core 12 which hopefully will be better then core 11 becuase core 11 i think gives a bad representation of linux overall.
-There were so many problems I also had with fedora i never told you about, there was a wierd virtual secured hard drive which did not exist and i couldn't access it which was wierd, plus the add/remove software worked really weird i had no clue how to use while in ubuntu is way better. |
Sad you haven't had any luck with Fedora 11 and when I had it installed, it detected ntfs out of box with no probs... I'm using Fedora 10 and I don't think Fedora 11 is completely ready but I heard from another community member that CentOS is good...
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