Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> OS: SL 5.1 x86.
>>
>> How can one use NTFS partitions automatically, after he boots in SL 
>> 5.1 GNOME? I have installed fuse-ntfs-3g from the dag repository but 
>> I don't know what must be done after this. Or is the dkms version better?
> 
> It's been a while since I last did this, but I remember I also downloaded the
> ntfs-3g RPM from Dag and from memory, I then just had to use the mount command
> to mount the NTFS partition.
> 
> Do a rpm -ql on the package to see what it installs and what binaries are
> available to you, then man on some of those binaries.
> 
> After you've figured that out, setup your fstab to automount those ntfs
> partitions on boot.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael.
> 
>> Anyway the ideal would be to be able to see all the NTFS partitions 
>> in GNOME nautilus.

I had occasion to do this recently.

I've just added a 500 Gbyte drive to a machine that dual boots Windows 
XP and Fedora 8.

The new disk mounts ro fine, without specifying the filesystem. rw, it 
complained that the system was shutdown uncleanly, probably because it's 
hibernated. I guess mounting a disk rw when it's owner's hibernated is 
risky behaviour.

I'm sure I did it first on SL5/C5, but I can't recall for the life of me 
which box. The system recognised the filesystem as ntfs which it doesn't 
support, but when I specified ntfs-3g it mounted without a problem.

I suspect an alias statement in the modprobe configuration would tidy it 
up a bit; fstab is all well and good when the drives don't move around, 
but on systems mounting NTFS via USB, something better's needed.





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