NTFS for x86_64

[benv84]

i installed FC2 version 2.6.8-1.521 the other day and for the most part i've been happy with it, except that i can't access any of the music files on my NTFS windows drive. i looked around and found the ntfs progect on sourceforge, but they didn't have a module to support the x86_64 chipset so it said that i had to build one. i downloaded the files it said i needed and tried executing the command

./build-2.6 kernel-module-ntfs.spec kernel-2.6.8-1.521.x86_64.rpm x86_64

but i get the error "Cannot find rpmbuild. Giving up.". so i then checked which directory it was looking for the files in, which was "/usr/src/redhat/", so i put all the files in there but it still does not work. any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.

[Shadow Skill]

you need to have made an rpmbuild directory...if you search for how to create an rpmbuild directory in /home hopefully you will find it, I don't have the 64 bit version so I can't help you too much.

[cybrjackle]

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/ntfsprogs/

NTFS filesystem libraries and utilities.
The Linux-NTFS project aims to bring full support for the NTFS filesystem to the Linux operating system. Linux-NTFS currently consists of a static library and utilities such as mkntfs, ntfscat, ntfsls, ntfsresize, and ntfsundelete (for a full list of included utilities see man 8 ntfsprogs).

Latest release: 1.9.4-1

Website: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/

[luna6]

I used yum to install gnome-vfs2-ntfs-1.9.4-1.1.fc3.rf...then I tried to mount my ntfs partition with this command ...
mount /dev/hde1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -r
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I got this reply
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mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel
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The kernal i am using is the updated one from yum ...2.6.9-1.681_FC3...and Im running FC3 x86_64...so I am missing a step to load my ntfs partition?

[cybrjackle]

I used yum to install gnome-vfs2-ntfs-1.9.4-1.1.fc3.rf...then I tried to mount my ntfs partition with this command ...
mount /dev/hde1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -r
....
I got this reply
....
mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel
.....
The kernal i am using is the updated one from yum ...2.6.9-1.681_FC3...and Im running FC3 x86_64...so I am missing a step to load my ntfs partition?

You need this too:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/contrib.html

[luna6]

thanks that worked like a charm....have one more question, how / or what is the command to mount the ntfs partition for all users rather then just root? I was able to mount the partition fine, but could only view it with root user. thanks..

[cybrjackle]

Lets take my default settings for my cdrecorder in /etc/fstab and take a look:


/dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t ,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
[code]

To allow my user "justin" to be able to mount that drive, I could simply add my self to it.

[code]
/dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder auto justin,pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:remo vable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0


Or instead of "justin" I could add justin to the "users" group and add "users" instead of justin if you need all users to mount the drive.

You could also use your uid too, more than likly youf first user is 500 so: uid=500 would also work.