topic Re: mount command in Operating System - Linux

mount command

Karthik_sg — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:04:39 GMT

Hi all,
I have a external usb hard disk which has ntfs partition on it,i am trying to moun this in RHEL4
and when i issue the command
mount /dev/sb1/ /hdd -t ntfs

I get the following error,
mount:unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
please do tell me wht command should i use to mount this hdd.
thanks in advance.

Re: mount command

Jeeshan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:39:21 GMT

go to this site for ntfs file system access

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

Re: mount command

Aashique — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:50:20 GMT

Hi,
try with this command:

mount /dev/sb1 /hdd

Thanks & Regards

Aashique

Re: mount command

dirk dierickx — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:09:27 GMT

this wont work with RHEL, because the ntfs driver is not included AFAIK. RHEL is a server OS, and they didn't see the need for ntfs read ability on server machines and supporting it.

other, more desktop oriented distros will do this for you though. try ubuntu or fedora.