[Genocide_Hoax]

Hello Every1,

I am very new to the world of linux, I just installed Red hat Linux Enterprise 5 in my system. But I am not being able to munt my xp drives in it. I came to learn that I have to install a ntfs-3g package for it and type the following

mount -t dev/sda1 ntfs-3g /media/windows having root previleges, I did create the required folders as directed but I didn't suceed in it. Please guide me as to how can I mount my xo drives in linux.

[Elvandil]

My understanding is that RedHat comes with no NTFS support and that you need to recompile your kernel with NTFS support. Being relatively unfamiliar with RedHat, I'll leave that to an expert.

[saikee]

Two issues here

First it is every Linux user's God given right to be able to read any MS Windows partition. Linux never has a problem with it since I entered Linux 5 years ago. To mount any partition /dev/sda1 on a dubdirectory /mnt/windows already created the command in a root console is just

 mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

Nearly 99% of the modern Linux will be glad to mount it even without specifying the type ( or omitting "-t ntfs" in the above). I never specify the type myself because a modern kernel should be able to detect the filing system.

The second issue is to write on a NTFS partition. Linux needs the ntfs-3g.

I don't have Red Hat Enterprise version but all the free Red Hat, Fedora, Berry, rPath etc, the ntfs-3g can be added by command

yum -y install ntfs-3g

To mount /dev/sda1 so that it can be written on subdirectory /mnt/windows the mounting instruction should be

ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

If the Red Hat complains any of the commands isn't there then just add "/sbin" in front of the command.

[eugene2k]

you might also need to type 'sudo' in front of the commands if it complains about you having not enough priviledges.

[Genocide_Hoax]

Thank you all for your response, I have tried out these commands

mount -t ....

but it doesn't work, I guess the ntfs-3g package I have downloaded is not supported by my kernel. Please help me out I want to make Linux my primary OS as soon as possible

Thanks.

[saikee]

Why don't you download Slax and burn it into a Live CD.

When you run Slax it will automatically mount every Windows partition and has been shipped with ntfs-3g.

It also allows you to work with MS partitions in the desktop and that is restricted in Red Hat.

Being a Live CD you don't even have to install it but have the full functionality of a Linux.

If you have a problem in Linux you have to describe it accurately, provide error message and history so that others can help you, otherwise there could be millions answers.

[Genocide_Hoax]

I have already installed red hat Linux..I don't wanna go for live cds..some1 please help me out