Mounting NTFS.

dolvmin · 08-03-2003, 01:58 PM

About 2 months ago, I was able to mount my NTFS drive in Red Hat Linux 7.3
I do not recall how I did this. What I do recall is how to used the mount ultility.

mount -t NTFS /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d

It provides the following error:

mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

If I try "mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d" the error is no different. This concludes the drive is present there.

Obviously this is either a package or setting related problem, since I was able to do it before.

Does anyone know what package I require?

DrOzz · 08-03-2003, 02:11 PM

you have to download the package for ntfs support which is available on the sourceforge.net website...maybe you compiled a new kernel or something since the last time you did this, and you disabled the support by mistake or something...

renjith · 08-03-2003, 02:12 PM

Go to http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html and read the instructions there to find out what kernel u r using if u r not aware about that and other things u need to know to use the ntfs support package. Then go to the link provided and download the corresponding RedHat and kernel version rpm.

Corin · 08-03-2003, 02:28 PM

To see what filesystems your kernel currently supports -

cat /proc/filesystems

dolvmin · 08-03-2003, 03:04 PM

Thanks alot everyone. It's up and running and better then before.

I used to get lots of garbal in the NTFS directories when I last mounted it.

It's very clean this time. Again, thanks alot...