From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98; OptusIE501-018) Description of problem: unable to mount ntfs file system. Kernel says ntfs is not supported by kernel We successfuly mounted fat . Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.on dual boot system, red hat 7.1 & NT 4.0 using ntfs 2.mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cdrive 3. Actual Results: message: ntfs not supported by kernel Expected Results: file system mounted Additional info: We successfully mounted fat We tried to mount a partition that did not exist. For that the correst error message was displayed. We triad vfat, but that does not work either.
NTFS is, as you have found, unsupported. This is a concious decision by the kernel team due to technical and legal problems.