ntfs partitions

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 06:01, Bill Myers wrote:
> I am a new Linux user and I recently loaded fedora 2.6 on my PC and
> tried to access the ntfs windows drive. I enter the following command.
> # mount  -t NTFS /dev/hda1 win
> Reply received 
> mount: fs type NTFS not supported by kernel
> The Linux I have states that the 2.6 Kernel supports NTFS file systems.
> Does fedoora 2.6 support NTFS kernels or am I doing something wrong?

2 things.

1.  use ntfs, not NTFS for the filesystem type.

2.  you need the ntfs module for linux, available at
http://linux-ntfs.sf.net with rpm downloads at
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/downloads.html