[CentOS] Cannot mount NTFS filesystems under Xfce4

[Keith Roberts]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Cannot mount NTFS filesystems under Xfce4
> 
> Keith Roberts wrote:
>> I have installed the following 2 packages on Centos 5.6, and
>> used GParted to successfully create an 8GB NTFS partition,
>> on some unused HDD space.
>> I'm running Xfce 4, and when I try to mount the NTFS file
>> system, I get an error box with 'ntfs - unknown filetype'
>
> you need fuse-ntfs-3g , get it from repoforge.

Thanks Nicolas. Is that as well as what I already have 
installed, or instead of?

Regards,

Keith

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