Mounting a ntfs drive
Hi there guys i am really really new to linux and i am trying to mount an ntfs drive which is in my external hard drive case (USB), it has founs the USB drive and i think it can see the size and stuff for for the life of me i cant seem to mount it i have looked up a lot of things on the web and cant find anything that can help
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 19457 156288321 42 SFS
this is what i can see
[root@www ~]# mount /dev/sda1 /home/adam/usb -t ntfs -r
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
this is how i try and mount it and the error i get, any help would be good i have been trying to do this for about a week now and it is crapping me off
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 19457 156288321 42 SFS
this is what i can see
[root@www ~]# mount /dev/sda1 /home/adam/usb -t ntfs -r
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
this is how i try and mount it and the error i get, any help would be good i have been trying to do this for about a week now and it is crapping me off
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no i am using ferdoa 4
For Fedora 4 ,download and install the rpm which matches your kernel from the below link
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/129/65/
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/129/65/
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As i said i am very new to this, there are a lot of link on the page what is different between them
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ok i have got it working now but for some reason i cant access the folder it say i dont have promission, how do i have it so it is open to everyone
http://data.linux-ntfs.org/googlesearch/index.php
I have assued redhat 9 for u in the above comment.