mounting an NTFS partition
 

haven't seen anyone post about this yet

i can mount my vfat partitions just fine, but when i try to mount an ntfs it doesn't recognise the format? :confused:

make sure you're mounting it as read only (ro)
mircrosoft keeps ntfs a secret and linux does not know how to write to it

Do you have ntfs support installed? See this link

I can't install NTFS support.

[root@localhost ~]# sudo yum install fuse fuse-libs ntfs-3g ntfsprogs ntfsprogs-gnomevfs
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.

The answer to your yum problem can be found Here.

thanks! :)

I have had some situations where I couldn't mount using ntfs for "type" no matter what, but using the same mount command with smbfs worked just fine.

this is weird, when i mount it as read-only it works, but as read/write the command doesn't work (i know i had it as read/write before i restarted).

this is my read only command which works: ' sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/wsystem -t ntfs-3g -ro umask=0222 '
this is my read/write command that doesn't work: ' sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/wsystem -t ntfs-3g -rw umask=0000 '

what am i doing wrong?

Untrue - Captive - http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
Captive: The first free NTFS read/write filesystem for GNU/Linux

Check out the link for installation/usage notes.

Silly question: Are you mounting it RO, then RW? If so, are you unmounting it first?
# umount /media/wsystem

How does it not work? Are you seeing any errors?