Re: Fedora (Core 1) trying to mount ntfs HD as root, and other problems
From: Jim Ross (jktross_at_umd.umich.edu)
Date: 09/05/05
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Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 01:59:23 -0400
Ike wrote:
> I'm a newbie and getting very frustrated with trying to mount hda2, my
> ntfs partition, to read downloaded files needed to set up sound card and
> maybe a Lucent winmodem, (if possible). I had installed Fedora core 1
> from a used book DVD on the 2nd HD of what had, up to then, been a WinXP
> PC with 2 hard drives. My hardware manager in Red Hat will see all hard
> drive partitions, but when linux boots, the first hard drive and the 2
> gig fat32 partition on the second drive on which linux is installed are
> not mounted automatically. When I logged in as root iand changed to the
> / directory and entered # mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt the message came
> on, that tntfs filesystem was not supported by the kernel. So then I
> read a manual some more, and tried # mount -t fat32 /dev/hdb1 /mnt
> trying to mount the 2 gig partition of the second hd, and I get a help
> screen of syntax of mount commands. I used -t fat32 because the drive
> is listed that way in the hardware manager.
> The reason I was doing this was trying to practice commands and
> navigation and also to copy the downloaded hardware setup files to the
> fat32 partition (if I can't get linux to read ntfs), and run them from
> linux, since the winmodem isn't working to download anything into the
> linux partitions now. I know someone will tell me to buy another modem,
> but that might be too easy, and it would not solve my problem of how to
> mount the other filesystem partitions. BVy trying to hack the os's like
> this, I am learning some skills
> It would of course be more convenient if the /etc/fstab which from what
> I have been reading is the startup file would go ahead and fix the
> non-linux partitions so I could mount them as a user rather than root,
> if that is possible, but I read in my book it was very dangerous to edit
> the fstab, even if I could get a clue at his point how to do that.
That should be vfat, like mount -t vfat, not fat32. vfat supports fat16
and fat32, so they just call them the same thing.
And NTFS and Red Hat is a special situation. Red Hat is conservation
and beware of certain things, for legal reasons. MP3 and NTFS are two
notable items. So, mounting NTFS in Red Hat can't be done out of the
box. Having said that, there is a group who make NTFS enabled Fedore
Core RPMs you can use to allow the mounting of NTFS in Fedore Core.
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/
Note: it's still read only, given the write enabled part of the code
isn't as trusted/safe as the read only code, which sounds quite good
these days, if not completely functional as yet.
Jim Ross
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