[CentOS] Cannot mount NTFS filesystems under Xfce4

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

Keith Roberts wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>
>> 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?

fuse-ntfs-3g is sufficient for rw access to files on ntfs partitions, 
but keeping what you have shouldn't harm.

also, read this:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS