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Hi all,

I'm using RHEL 5.0 with the kernel 2.6.8-18.el5. I want to mount my external hard disk drive with the NTFS file system. I cannot mount it because it doesn't support NTFS file system. Error msg: mount: unknown 'ntfs' file system.

Can anyone tell me to mount this hard disk?

Regards,

Sarith

+1  A: 

You would be better off asking this on http://serverfault.com/.

David M
+1  A: 

Install the ntfs-3g package as it contains a working NTFS driver for Linux. Afterwards mount using the command: "mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows"

Niels R.
Thanks for your reply.However, I cannot find the ntfs-3g package appropriated for the RHEL 5.0 kernel 2.6.18-8.el5.
Sarith
Why don't you try to compile the sources of ntfs-3g? ( http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html#installation). A Kernel recompile will surely do it. But, do you really want to get to that level?
Amit
@Sarith: You'll find that in the rpmforge repositories.
JCCyC
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how can compile the kernel please give brief please .........

masksasi