[CentOS] ntfs
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Sun Dec 5 22:13:38 UTC 2010
At Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:29:47 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
> Ritika Garg a écrit :
> > CentOS 5.5 is installed in the system. I installed the package
> > kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-3.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > I mounted Seagate external hard disk. I am able to copy contents from
> > the hard disk to the system but not from the system to the hard disk.
> >
>
> I've been following this thread, and I'm wondering: why bother with NTFS
> in the first place? If you have a mixed environment where you need
> Windows to access your external hard disk, you might as well format it
> with a FAT filesystem. Linux supports FAT natively, without making you
> jump through burning loops.
>
> If you don't know how to achieve this, here's how :
>
> 1) Backup all your data.
>
> 2) Given your external disk is /dev/sda, launch fdisk, delete the NTFS
> partition and create a single FAT partition (hex code 0b).
>
> 3) Install 'dosfstools' and format your disk :
>
> # mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
>
> 4) From now on, mount your disk as FAT :
>
> # mount [-t vfat] /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki Kovacs
Will FAT support the larger external disks, such as the .5TB and larger?
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