NTFS in Fedora 4 gaaaaaaaaahhh

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Saying 'does not work' isn't going to provide enough information to get any help from anybody at all.

Reboot your system.

Log into your system, open up a terminal. Use sudo or su into root.

Type 'dmesg' and see what the output shows. This is messages from your kernel.

Now do the 'modprobe ntfs' and then run 'dmesg' again. What does it say? What has changed?

If it looks like it was loaded successfully, try the command to mount the ntfs volume and then post the error message along with dmesg stuff.

Then you might find somebody to help you. You can copy and paste out of the terminal by highlighting the text, openning up a text editor and then a simple middle click to paste the highlighted stuff into the text editor. Doesn't work if you close out your terminal before you paste.

Keep in mind NTFS support is flaky due to Microsoft's desire to make it so that only Windows can read your files.. They've put up legal and technical barriers to compatability. (hint: they only want you to use windows). If you want to transfer files between windows and Linux on the same machine in a dual boot you can either setup a fat32 partition or setup a seperate file server so that you can store files on it and access them irregardless what OS your using.
 

wetcat007

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Sorry about not being very specific I was tired and made the post quickly. When I run 'modprobe ntfs' i get 'FATAL: Module ntfs not found.' Anyways I grep dmesg for ntfs and find nothing. 'dmesg | grep NTFS'

'mount /dev/hdb1/ /mnt/hdb1 -t ntfs -r'
results:
'mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

I know that NTFS support is flaky, however it seems that I just can't get it installed correctly in the first place.

Anyways any help would be greatly appreciated, if I left any information that might be important out just let me know.

btw I am doing this all as root