[Omega_Shadow]

Under Mandrake I can read from my NTFS paritions. I never had to set anything up, it was all automatic. The drives partitions where listed under /mnt

Now with Fedora, I need to know how to access those drives. Any suggestions?

[linuxphile]

There is an FAQ/HOWTO on this at http://www.fedorafaq.org/#ntfs

Once you've installed the kernel module you should be able to mount your NTFS drive with a command similar to: mount /dev/hda1 /some/mountpoint

Where /dev/hda1 is your NTFS partition.

[Omega_Shadow]

wow, that was easyer then I thought...
Almost disipointed.
All well, Thanx for the help!


EDIT> Spoke too soon
[root@localhost Omega_Shadow]# yum install kernel-module-ntfs-$(uname -r)
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
Nothing to do
[root@localhost Omega_Shadow]# mount /dev/hda2
mount: can't find /dev/hda2 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab


I followed everything to the letter. What did I do wrong?

EDIT> Edited YUM and got the kernal module to install, stil can not mount the drive though.

[Omega_Shadow]

Under Root I type the command "mount /dev/hda2". Is this correct or am I doing something wrong?

[linuxphile]

You haven't provided a mount point.


Try mount /dev/hda2 /somedir
Where somedir is an empty directory that you can use for mounting /dev/hda2

[Squashman]

Originally Posted by linuxphile

You haven't provided a mount point.


Try mount /dev/hda2 /somedir
Where somedir is an empty directory that you can use for mounting /dev/hda2

Yep, just keep it simple. Create a directory under /mnt to mount the file system to. If you want the filesystem to mount everytime you turn on your system you will need to edit the file /etc/fstab

[Omega_Shadow]

root@localhost Omega_Shadow]# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_d
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

How do I specify the filesystem?

And while on the subject, how do I edit /etc/fstab?

[Squashman]

mount -t ntfs

[Omega_Shadow]

[root@localhost Omega_Shadow]# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt -t ntfs
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
missing codepage or other error
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

What did I do wrong this time?!

[Squashman]

Create a directory in /mnt to mount the filesystem to.

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows

Kind of helps to read the man page to know the syntax of the command.

[Omega_Shadow]

It realy surprizes me how the Linux elite always say something is simple and then leave out all the major details (talking about the FAQ, not you guys)

I cant make a dir in /mnt. I could become root and do it, but If I understand linux security then I would only be able to accsess said folder as root, defeating the perpouse of haveing my windows media partition "easly accessable". I even tried makeing a folder on the desktop and mounting to it. The folder automaticly locks itself after the mount. What is the point of mounting a drive if I cant get to it?

[brendandonhu]

ALL filesystems are mounted as root on most systems. You can still access the mounted partition as a regular user.
Its not really that hard to make a directory as root...
sudo
mkdir /mnt/blah

And you're done.

Add the partition to /etc/fstab if you want it to be mounted automatically.

[Omega_Shadow]

""Omega_Shadow is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.""

Reported to whom?! Myself?!

[brendandonhu]

Try doing
/bin/su instead
That shouldn't need any configuration. If you want to use sudo you can edit yourself into the /etc/sudoers file.

[Omega_Shadow]

Originally Posted by brendandonhu

If you want to use sudo you can edit yourself into the /etc/sudoers file.

How do I do that?