mounting NTFS drives in FC2

[Brian Hartman]

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Pascal Calarco wrote:

| I'm trying Fedora Core after using Mandrake for the last few
| releases (which I still really like), so have a couple questions
| regarding mounting ntfs drives.  In Mandrake this was very easy
| with their 'supermount' tool.
|
| First, I did find the kernel-ntfs RPM package from sourceforge, and
|  applied this.
|
| Next, I edited my /etc/fstab to add the NTFS drives:
|
| LABEL=/                 /                       ext3 defaults
| 1 1 none                    /dev/pts                devpts
| gid=5,mode=620  0 0 none                    /dev/shm
| tmpfs defaults        0 0 LABEL=/home             /home
| ext3 defaults        1 2 none                    /proc
| proc defaults        0 0 none                    /sys
| sysfs defaults        0 0 /dev/hda7               swap
| swap defaults        0 0 /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom
| udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/hda/hda1
| /mnt/win1               ntfs defaults        0 0 /dev/hdb/hdb1
| /mnt/win2               ntfs defaults        0 0 /dev/sda/sda1
| /mnt/sata               ntfs defaults        0 0
|
| Okay, now when I try to mount these:
|
| [root at localhost root]# mount -a -t ntfs mount: special device
| /dev/hda/hda1 does not exist (a path prefix is not a directory)
|
| mount: special device /dev/hdb/hdb1 does not exist (a path prefix
| is not a directory)
|
| mount: special device /dev/sda/sda1 does not exist (a path prefix
| is not a directory)
|
Hi, pascal.

I think you're mounting the drives incorrectly.  Here's how I would
mount them:

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win1
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win2

I think that should work for you.

(Note:  You need to either be root or do a a sudo to run these commands.)

| What am I missing?  I have looked at the man pages for both fstab
| and mount, and am still puzzeled.  Thanks in advance!
|
| - pascal
|
|

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