On Thursday 15 March 2007 22:13, Andreas Rogge wrote:

Hello, the reason this is disabled in the standard-kernel is that the upstream- package ships with this disabled. Your best bet is probably the centosplus kernel. The package contains the ntfs-module. But I doubt that write-support is enabled.

The centosplus kernel is more or less the upstream-kernel with all the disabled stuff reenabled.

Regards, Andreas Rogge

Am Donnerstag, den 15.03.2007, 17:03 -0400 schrieb Scott R Ehrlich:

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I just installed Centos 4.4 and performed a Yum update to freshen all out-of-date files.

I also have two IDE drives that are NTFS partitioned, but noticed they are not seen by the kernel.

I visit /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.EL-i686 and copy the Makefile.bak to Makefile and run make xconfig. Reviewing the supported filesystems, ntfs is not selected. Any reason why not?

What is the easiest and safest way to get ntfs support? I could just download and compile the latest kernel, but there must be an easier, and just as safe, method for installing one simple option.

Thanks.

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The easiest way I know is to download a kernel-module from here: http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/120/59/

The downside is that with each new kernel you need a new module, so if you really need ntfs support all the time, you might be stuck for a while. It used to be read-only but I have not checked what the story is these days. Fill us in.

Bye