NTFS filesystem not recognized by mount
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jun 17 16:21:20 UTC 2005
Todd Wease wrote:
> Trying to mount ntfs partition gives an error that the filesystem is
> unknown.
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs pamconsole,umask=000,ro 0 0
>
> [wease1 at desktop: ~] $ sudo mount /mnt/winxp
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
> [wease1 at desktop: ~] $ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong here or was support for ntfs not
> compiled into the kernel or something else? Thanks.
It's not compiled into the kernel, probably for legal reasons.
See http://www.fedorafaq.org/#ntfs for workarounds.
Paul.
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