Mount an ntfs filesystem

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:42:26 +0000, Chris Norman wrote:

> Hi people who read my last post (about disk recovery) will be going
> "hasn't he learned?":D.
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> I need to mount a friend's ntfs drive.
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> When I used the command mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /media/ntfs it said
> "unrecognized file system NTFS", which I took to be "you're typing
> rubbish". But when I just did mount /dev/hda2 /media/ntfs, it came out
> with the same thing.
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> Do I need any libraries to make it work with NTFS?
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First of all, don't post in HTML.

If you have the livna repository enabled (you really should!), the
simplest thing is

yum install kernel-module-ntfs


To enable the livna repository, in /etc/yum.repos.d create a file called
livna.repo containing the following:

[livna]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY