Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 119153
Problem mounting NTFS filesystem.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:38 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030 Description of problem: The mount command will not mount an NTFS hdd. Exact log as follows: [solmnic@cae88-122-154 solmnic]$ su root Password: [root@cae88-122-154 solmnic]# cd /mnt/ [root@cae88-122-154 mnt]# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel [root@cae88-122-154 mnt]# mount -t auto /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel [root@cae88-122-154 mnt]# mount -t NTFS /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows mount: fs type NTFS not supported by kernel Added ntfs entry to /etc/filesystems Attempted entry addition to /proc/filesystems - wouldn't override. Tried compatible file systems. No luck. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See log in description. Actual Results: Refusal to mount device. Expected Results: Device mounting to specified directory. Additional info: For cross-platform servers, this can be a large problem. A dual-boot setup for using MS StreamCAST server software, then booting to Linux for normal server use, and not being able to retrieve StreamCAST data for logging and reviewing of security flaws can be quite horrid. Also, data loss from Platform-to-Platform migration is a serious issue.
NOTABUG. Fedora kernels won't have NTFS support out of the box. You will need to compile the NTFS module. And NTFS write support is experimental.
Sahil is correct. You need to compile NTFS support into the kernel yourself. Closing NOTABUG.