unable to mount usb drive in RHEL5 kernel 2.6.18-128.el5 i686

[baishalihere]

I am new to Redhat Linux.

I have installed the software.

Somewhere I red that I need to install kmod-fuse-2.7.4-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm and if I install this then I dont have to install anything. My kernel version is 2.6.18-128.el5 i686

So I have downloaded the same and then copied it in /usr/bin

then gave the commnad

rpm -Uhv kmod-fuse-2.7.4-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm

After this what should be next?

What are the steps to be followed after that?

What would be the correct command to mount my 230gb ntfs external drive?

Since I am new to linux please explain in a detailed manner.

Please reply me soon ....

If the problem is resolved then I need to install Oracle R12 E-Business Suite on RHEL5 and I know I would huge problem in that

Baishali

[lomcevak]

Whenever you install something involving the kernel you have to reboot

shutdown -r now

Did you try to plug your external drive into a USB port? It may automount. I tried this with a pen drive so it may be different. But if it works look in directory /media. My pen drive got mounted as:

"/media/USB MEMORY"

So to see what's on that pen drive I would use the command:

ls -lR "/media/USB MEMORY"

[lcoronato]

Hi Baishali,

For you mount the ntfs external drive with permission of write, you shoud install the ntfs-3g package.

This link is for Red Hat package download:
marush.com/category/linux/rpm/ntfs-3g/

After installed, you could use the command for mount:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

Is necessary that the fuse module is loaded

For check modules you would use:

lsmod |grep fuse

For start module you would use:

modprobe fuse

I think this will help.

Leandro Coronato