On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Garrett Holmstrom <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 5/22/2011 22:38, Zack Yovel wrote: >> >> hi, I'm new to SL, and I want to add ntfs support. I have SL 6 installed >> on my laptop, and I intend to install it on my desktop also. >> so: >> 1. What is the best way to add ntfs support to my running SL laptop? >> 2. Is there a way to add ntfs support to the desktop as part of the >> installation proccess? > > 1. Install ntfs-3g from EPEL. > 2. If your goal is to install to a NTFS disk, no. Otherwise you might be > able to add the EPEL repository as part of the installation process and > select it that way. You need kernel modifications that are not part of the default kernel from upstream in able to write. NTFS also has a *lot* of options which do not map to normal POSIX ownership and permissions: they're possible to emulate, badly, with NFSv4 and other more sophisticated fileystem toolkits, but *nothing* does one-to-one mapping between NTFS permissions and *anything* else. That said, over in CentOS, they used to publish kernels with the modules built-in as part of the "centosplus" repository. It's a single flag difference in the kernel configuraiton files: you could grab the SRPM, edit the flags appropriately, and build the kernels for testing.