Mount NTFS with Fedora C4

[Vernon Brown_4]

I made directory /C and attempted to mount /dev/hda2 C and get error "unknown file system 'ntfs'

I have SuSE 9 bootable on another partition and I can mount the NTFS (hda2) when running it.

I think I need a kernel build for Fedora that knows about NTFS file system. Does anyone know where/how I can accomplish that.

Thanks for any help !!

[Raj D.]

Hi Vernon ,

check with fstyp , what type of FS is is recognizing , to /dev/hda2 . And then try mounting again , hope it can help.

cheers,

[Ivan Ferreira]

NTFS support is not enabled in the kernel by default. You need to recompile the kernel or install the nfs precompiled module.

yum install kernel-module-ntfs-$(uname -r)

[Vernon Brown_4]

Tried using fstyp get command not found, but I'm pretty sure it is type NTFS.

Tried the yum install kernel-module-ntfs-$(uname -r) and it did some modifications. Not sure yet if worked, the yum install process exited with an error. I'll check it some more.

[Vernon Brown_4]

I ran yum a second time to get the error message. The first time I ran it it reported making changes. The second time no, meaning, I guess, that I already had it from the first yum session. The exiting error message is the same as the first time.

[root@veb /]# yum install kernel-module-ntfs-$(uname -r)
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
http://klid.dk/homeftp/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 403: Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:43:24 GMT
Server: Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.28 (Mandrake Linux/3.4.92mdk) PHP/4.3.3
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Trying other mirror.
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
Nothing to do
[root@veb /]#

[Ivan Ferreira]

The module was not installed.

Download from here:

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/


This package should work:

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4-2.1.22-0.lvn.3.4.i686.rpm

[Ivan Ferreira]

Sorry is the 1398:

kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4-2.1.22-0.lvn.3.4.i686.rpm

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Sorry is the 1398:

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4-2.1.22-0.lvn.3.4.i686.rpm

[Vernon Brown_4]

Thanks; finally was able to mount the Windows partition.