Mount NTFS partition

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 05:02, Fedora List wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> I'm trying to mount an NTFS partition.
> FC1 on hda and Winnie XP Pro (NTFS) on hdb.
> I've RPM'ed the correct kernel-ntfs rpm.
> cat /proc/filesystems reflects ntfs available.
> I've created /mnt/hdb1
> When trying to mount hdb1 error message:
> 
> ...not a valid block device
> 
> 
/dev/hda2     /mnt/xp  ntfs    nls=utf8,uid=0,gid=0,umask=0222,ro,noatime       0 0

That's from my fstab file.

are you sure your hdb is the correct partition.  and not hdb1?

try cat /proc/partition or do fdisk /dev/hdb to see 
if that's correct. 


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