Hi Barry,

Have you installed the ntfs-3g package? It should be in EPEL for EL7.

Sean

On 1 November 2014 15:33, Barry Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> re: SL 7, x64 , Live DVD
>
> In Dolphin, I tried to open one of the many NTFS partitions on this box  =
> -
> and hit this msg (see below).
>
> NB: Box is Core i5, 8GiB Ram.
>
> Tried again (and again) .. same msg.
> Rebooted ... same again.
>
> Tried other NTFS partitions - same again ..
>
> NB: fat32 partition opened ok.
>
> Any ideas pls?
>
> Cheers
> Barry
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> An error occurred while accessing 'FAEX2-03L', the system responded: The
> requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sda5 at
> /run/media/liveuser/FAEX2-03L: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o
>
>  "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=
> =0177"
> "/dev/sda5" "/run/media/liveuser/FAEX2-03L"' exited with non-zero exit
> status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>



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