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Quote:

Originally Posted by alaios

Hi i am trying to make my ntfs ppartition mountable from every user
My /etc/fstab has the following line
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs ro,uid=1000.gid=100 0 0

The roor can ount it succesfully but when i tru to mount /media/windwos
returns the message only root can do this

hi i'm just new in the world of linux,
i have installed RHEL5 on my machine, now i want to access my NTFS partition from linux.when i give the command,
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/media
it's giving me the errot that,
unknown file system type.

Pls guide me for the issue.

Your kernel doesn't have NTFS support, hence the error message. Have a look here for RPMs you can download.

skimeer - I have cut out your post and the response and moved them to this thread in the Red Hat forum. Basically, the thread you posted to is so old as to not really be relevant to your problem.

More 3rd-party ntfs rw options:

Code:

# uname -rpmi



2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64



# yum --enablerepo=rpmforge info dkms-ntfs fuse-ntfs-3g



Available Packages



Name: dkms-ntfs

Repo: rpmforge

Summary: Driver for reading and writing on NTFS formatted volumes



Description:

Driver (Linux kernel module) for reading and writing on NTFS formatted volumes.





Name: fuse-ntfs-3g

Repo: rpmforge

Summary: Linux NTFS userspace driver



Description:

The ntfs-3g driver is an open source, GPL licensed, third generation Linux NTFS

driver. It provides full read-write access to NTFS, excluding access to

encrypted files, writing compressed files, changing file ownership, access

right.