how to mount in Fedora


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Hi, I recently installed fedora core and now I'd like to browse some files I have in my ntfs partition but the problem is that neither the hardware browser nor the mount utility detects my harddrives, just the cd drivers and memory sticks, there is any way to fedora to detect the hd?

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Did you try (as root in a shell), typing in something like:

mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hdb2

This example is from my second hard drive, yours will be something like hda0 or 1, or whatever you have set up.

Also, you will need (again as root) to create a dir called whatever you want (call it "win_ntfs" or anything) in the /mnt dir.

You can even put a symbolic link to it in your /home/xxxxx dir after it is mounted by typing in:

ln -s /mnt/win_ntfs /home/my_shortcut

If you have any problems, post again. :)

Mark

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/etc/fstab

Since it's NTFS you can only browse it read-only, but this is what your entry would look like

/dev/hda2 ? ? ? ? ?/mnt/ntfs ? ? ? ? ?ntfs ? ? ? ? ? ?defaults,ro,umask=000 ? ? 0 0

Replace /dev/hda2 with the name of the partition. you can find out which one it is through /proc

and you can replaced /mnt/ntfs with wherever you wanna mount it, i usually like to keep mounted devi:)s under /mnt. :)

edit: This will auto-mount the NTFS partition upon boot, but you don't need to reboot to get it to work, just run mount -a and all filesystems listed in fstab will be mounted. This also enables the regular users to browse NTFS partitions, since if you mount it as root, only root can access it.

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Did you try (as root in a shell), typing in something like:

mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hdb2

This example is from my second hard drive, yours will be something like hda0 or 1, or whatever you have set up.

Also, you will need (again as root) to create a dir called whatever you want (call it "win_ntfs" or anything) in the /mnt dir.

You can even put a symbolic link to it in your /home/xxxxx dir after it is mounted by typing in:

ln -s /mnt/win_ntfs /home/my_shortcut

If you have any problems, post again. :)

Mark

With NTFS you have to specify the filesystem type ;)

Mounting it as root locks it from other users, so linking it to your home dir wouldn't do much good if you couldn't open it.

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everything works except that it seems that I need a ntfs module for my kernel, but I cant find any for my version 2.4.22-1.2135.nptl

help me!!! :(

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Oops! :blush:

My original post was mounting my other ext3 partition on hdb. Nothing to do with NTFS. Sorry. :pinch:

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yeah unfortunatelly fedora core does not support NTFS straight out of the box. you need to compile it to you kernel. Not telling not to ask in neowin for help but #fedora on FreeNode is a GREAT irc channel for fedora. I have a learnt a lot from the guys (and more that likely girls) in there.

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I just compiled the latest 2.6.0 kernel (2.6.0-1.104 stable) but still no detection for ntfs systems, what Im doing wrong?

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,Dec 27 2003, 03:59] I just compiled the latest 2.6.0 kernel (2.6.0-1.104 stable) but still no detection for ntfs systems, what Im doing wrong?

did you enable NTFS support though ? you dont need 2.6 for NTFS support. I am running 2.4.22 ..even I have NTFS support.

here's how you can enable NTFS support. go to /usr/src/linux and run make menuconfig. Then go to file systems section and enable NTFS support.

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I finally enabled ntfs and mp3 playback, but fedora just seems rushed, it doesnt play video files neither dvd?s, the soundcard control is poor and there is some rpm crashes here and there, its going to sit in my ext3 partition but Im not going to boot it till is properly updated

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,Dec 27 2003, 15:29] I finally enabled ntfs and mp3 playback, but fedora just seems rushed, it doesnt play video files neither dvd?s, the soundcard control is poor and there is some rpm crashes here and there, its going to sit in my ext3 partition but Im not going to boot it till is properly updated

You need Gentoo ! :yes::

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,Dec 27 2003, 17:29] I finally enabled ntfs and mp3 playback, but fedora just seems rushed, it doesnt play video files neither dvd?s, the soundcard control is poor and there is some rpm crashes here and there, its going to sit in my ext3 partition but Im not going to boot it till is properly updated

You'll need third-party apps to view video files. MPlayer works wonderfully, and includes support for many formats. Ogle does a great job with DVDs. For soundcards, I know that Slackware has the "alsaconfig" command to change sound settings, I'm not sure what it is for Fedora. As for RPMs, well they are the worst package management system for Linux.:))

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,Dec 27 2003, 21:29] I finally enabled ntfs and mp3 playback, but fedora just seems rushed, it doesnt play video files neither dvd?s, the soundcard control is poor and there is some rpm crashes here and there, its going to sit in my ext3 partition but Im not going to boot it till is properly updated

RedHat disabled MP3 playback and all movie playback because of licensing concerns, and thus Fedora inherited that. It's also why NTFS isn't turned on. It actually doesn't do any of that by design.

Like Iguana said though. Installing Xine, Mplayer, or VLC will give you video playback. And you already added MP3 support.

PS: You can install ALSA to get alsaconfig on Fedora, OSS is the default on RedHat/Fedora.

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RedHat disabled MP3 playback and all movie playback because of licensing concerns, and thus Fedora inherited that. It's also why NTFS isn't turned on. It actually doesn't do any of that by design.

Like Iguana said though. Installing Xine, Mplayer, or VLC will give you video playback. And you already added MP3 support.

PS: You can install ALSA to get alsaconfig on Fedora, OSS is the default on RedHat/Fedora.

I got alsa with the new kernel, thanks, I will try those video programs later, hey, at least my first full time experience wasnt bad, all the big packages compiled (kernel for example) were succesuful

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