fstab and mounting an ntfs filesystem

[Scott van Looy]

On Nov 29 Mikkel L. Ellertson did spake thusly:

> 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.

ntfs-3g is available in extras

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Hope this helps some, sorry for not being able to do a brain dump.

 	- Mike Stump helping a clueless user on the gcc mailing list