Problem Mounting NTFS on CentOS6

[sukh]

Hello All,

I am using the CentOS 6, I am not a regular user of Linux but using it regularly now a days.

I am facing problem, since i attached my USB drive of 500 GB NTFS to the system It give me below error :

Error mounting: mount: unknown file-system type 'ntfs'.

I have read various help records regarding this but did not found any solution.

Please guide me in detail.

Thanks,
Sukh

[fratermus]

The unknown bit makes me think perhaps the package that handles ntfs is missing.


Check this out for the yum stanzas to install it if it's missing:
(argh, won't let me post the url because I'm a newb here; google for:
centos mount ntfs
and eyeball the TipsAndTricks wiki page that comes up. )

I'm an aptitude guy (debian-based distro side) so I don't want to start lying to you...

[scathefire]

In the past, linux did not natively have NTFS support. I believe you need a package called fuse.

for centos:

yum install fuse

Or, you may try using ntfs-3g instead of ntfs

[fratermus]

That fuse stuff was what was in the URL the forum wouldn't let me post...

[scathefire]

In the past, I did the following to mount NTFS volumes:

TipsAndTricks/NTFS - CentOS Wiki

You will need to have the rpmforge repository installed.