fedore 3 saying it doesn't support ntfs

[Davegod75]

Just got done installing install fedora core 3 and i hooked up my external usb drive (formatted NTFS) and i get an error saying: cannot mount, the kernel does not suport ntfs.

I thought my kernal did support ntfs reading?

any ideas?


kernel = 2.6.9-1.667smp

 

[n0cmonkey]

Do you have the NTFS kernel module loaded?

 

[Davegod75]

edited post..it won't mount

 

[Davegod75]

newbie here

how do i check that ?and is it an rpm i can download? or can i use redhat's add software thing to install it?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Davegod75
newbie here

how do i check that ?and is it an rpm i can download? or can i use redhat's add software thing to install it?

Dunno. I don't use fedora, Linux, or NTFS whenever possible. 😛

 

[n0cmonkey]

It talks about FC 2, but should help you with the concepts

 

[Davegod75]

found that sourceforge via google and installed the driver. mounts but can't open...i'll look into it more.

thanks for the posts

 

[uOpt]

The NTFS module is not build in the default Fedora Core 3 kernel config (at least not under AMD64, that's the only FC3 I have right now).

You need to get the kernel sources and compile the NTFS module and load it. If you are not really sure what you are doing you should probably compile and install the whole kernel.

Write support in that module is probably still dangerous, but then, probably not much more so than writing NTFS from Windows 🙂

 

[Nothinman]

You need to get the kernel sources and compile the NTFS module and load it. If you are not really sure what you are doing you should probably compile and install the whole kernel.

Not really, other people have already taken care of that and made RPMs available with ntfs modules for stock Fedora kernels.

 

[uOpt]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

You need to get the kernel sources and compile the NTFS module and load it. If you are not really sure what you are doing you should probably compile and install the whole kernel.

Not really, other people have already taken care of that and made RPMs available with ntfs modules for stock Fedora kernels.

That's not sortish 🙂

 

[Nothinman]

sortish?

 

[uOpt]

Argh

Sportish.