Unable to mount drives T_T


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Today i installed the Fedora 7 . Installation executed smoothly. I am using linux for the first time.

I was trying to mount windows partitions. Tried a lot to mount. Read guides and tutorials online. But its not loading. Could there be a problem with the OS ? Or its just me ?

Nothings happens after i issue command in terminal. Cursor moves to next line and keeps blinking.

Just for confirmation could u tell me how to mount ?

sda1,sda5,sda6 are my window based partitions and sda8 is my Linux.

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I think you have to install NTFS-3G and edit your fstab to point to the partitions. Not sure if that is correct, though. Going off of memory here. ;)

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Yup. Fedora (and Red Hat) observe patents closely*, so things like NTFS and MP3 decoding aren't included by default. Users must license or install themselves, based on the laws of their country.

You should be able to install it easily with the yum command: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#ntfs

* Funny, though, with the care that Red Hat takes to observe patents that they are currently being sued for a patent violation by a company that does nothing other than sue over patents.

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  • 2 months later...

After you install ntfs-3g the command will be something like:

"mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/vista"

(In root so type "su -" before or "sudo")

If you are still having problems with it show us the command you are using.

BTW, auto-mounting is different, you will need to edit the /etc/fstab file.

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You'll only need ntfs-3g IF you need to write on NTFS partitions. Otherwise, mount itself can mount NTFS partitions well.

mount -t ntfs /dev/sdaX /xx/xx

Read the man ;)

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You'll only need ntfs-3g IF you need to write on NTFS partitions. Otherwise, mount itself can mount NTFS partitions well.

mount -t ntfs /dev/sdaX /xx/xx

Read the man ;)

This thread is about Fedora. And Fedora does not include NTFS support by default, the user must accept the potential liability of installing it.
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