fstab and mounting an ntfs filesystem

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Wed Nov 29 23:12:13 UTC 2006


Don Raikes wrote:
> I installed fc6 onto a pc that had windows xp installed on an ntfs filesystem.
> 
> I wish to access some of the files from the ntfs filesystem from within linux.
> 
> I added the line:
> 
> /dev/sda1 /windows  ntfs rw,auto,user  0  0
> 
> to my /etc/fstab
> 
> When I tried to mount /windows, I get an error saying unrecognized filesystem type ntfs.
> 
> How should I specify this filesystem to be able to access it?
> 
You will need to get the ntfs module for your kernel. It is not
included in the standard packages, but have to be downloaded from an
add-on repository.

Mikkel
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