Mounting Windows NTFS partitions under Fedora Core 6

[rachin]

Hi, Frens!!!

First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007

I am dual booting FC6 & WinXP on two hard-disks.

FC6 is on PATA hard-disk.
WinXP is on SATA hard-disk. All the partitions on this disk are NTFS.

Both are booting up nicely from the GRUB menu.
Now, I want to mount partitions of winxp under /mnt/windows/C,.../E & .../F.
I tried it by using #mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/windows/E but it is showing a message 'Unknown partition: ntfs' & it is not mounted!?

Plz, tell me the correct way of doing it. Can linux automatically mount my windows partitions? so that I don't have to do it every time

I have Intel D865GBF motherboard & Pentium 4 2.4 GHz processor.

[devils casper]

Hi !

Happy New Year !!

Fedora doesn't support NTFS out of box. install kmod patch for NTFS read access.

yum -y install kmod-ntfs

for NTFS read/write access, check this link and follow instructions under NTFS write access title.
add entries of NTFS partitions in /etc/fstab file for automatic mounting at boot up.





Casper

[rachin]

My modem is still not working in FC6 but it is working in WinXP.
Can I download the kmod-ntfs and ntfs-3g packages and install it?

Plz, provide me the link...

[devils casper]

post the output of 'uname -a' here.





Casper

[Thinker]

Hi rachin,
You can download the .RPM of ntfs-3g from Fedora Extras download server and install it using rpm. But that would require you to install other dependend packages as well. They are fuse-libs, fuse, ntfsprogs-devel, ntfs-3g-devel, ntfsprogs-gnomevfs and ntfsprogs. All the .RPMs of these packages are available at the following link : -

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...extras/6/i386/

With Regards,
Thinker

[rachin]

Output:

Linux localhost:localdomain 2.6.18.-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:54:20 EDT 2006 1686 1386 GNU/Linux

[rnt]

I am having the same problem too. I downloaded all the packeges told by Thinker but still its saying
[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/sda3
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
Please help me. Thanks in advance..

regard's
rnt

[devils casper]

I am having the same problem too. I downloaded all the packeges told by Thinker but still its saying
[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/sda3
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

hi rnt !!

Welcome to the LinuxForums.
post the output of 'fdisk -l' command and contents of /etc/fstab file.







Casper

[rachin]

I also tried but failed so I created a small partition of fat32 n easily mounted it by editing /etc/fstab. It meets my requirment of sharing my mp3 files and some other files between linux n windows.

[Thinker]

Hi rnt,

I am having the same problem too. I downloaded all the packeges told by Thinker but still its saying
[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/sda3
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

Well just installing the ntfs-3g packages and its required dependencies alone may not let you mount it. If you have Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) policy packages installed, you need to modify the file /etc/selinux/config by changing the line : -

SELINUX=enforcing

to : -

SELINUX=permissive

Now, modify the /etc/fstab file to add the line : -

/dev/sda3               /media/NTFS_Partition           ntfs-3g ro,defaults,umask=0000  0 0

The above entry in /etc/fstab will mount the partition on boot as read-only (ro). If you want to write to NTFS partition, then you need to specify the option rw instead of ro. You can also manually mount it by running as root either of the following commands : -

# ntfs-3g /dev/sda3 /media/NTFS_Partition

# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda3 /media/NTFS_Partition

With Regards,
Thinker