Reading NTFS partition from FC6

[Larry Kelly]

On 3/6/07, Jonathan Berry <berryja at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Larry Kelly <ldk2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for  the quick response.  Installed ntfs-3g on two dual-boot
> > machines.  Created a /mnt/windows folder.  Ran the suggested command:
> >
> > ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
> >
> > I received this   "WARNING:  Deficient FUSE kernel module detected.. . . The
> > same FUSE kernel has been included since version 2.6.28-rc1..."
> >
> > It still seems to work. I can see the partition.  Should I be concerned?
>
> I don't think so.  At the very least, just be careful to umount it if
> you make any changes and give it time to write everything out to disk.
>  I believe that should be 2.6.20-rc1 above; we are probably a ways
> away from 2.6.28 :-).  I do not know if any of the proper fixes have
> been backported to the current FC6 kernel or not.
>
> If you are using SELinux, you will probably run into issues if you
> want to mount it on boot and umount it on shutdown.  SELinux doesn't
> like something.
>
> > Also:
> >
> > How do I tell which partitions belong to windows?  Or,  what type of
> > partition it is?
>
> If you don't already know, you can run /sbin/fdisk -l as root and it
> should list them as NTFS type.  I forget what number it is, but I
> think it should also say NTFS.

Thanks, it does list them as NTSF or W95 etc.
>
> Jonathan
>
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