[CentOS] How to replace ntfs by ntfs-3g?

Sun Aug 5 01:01:20 UTC 2007
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On 8/4/07, Olaf Mueller <daily-planet at istari.de> wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
>
> Hello Ralph,
>
> > Olaf Mueller wrote:
> >> I can write to an ntfs partion if mounting it by hand with 'mount -t
> >> ntfs-3g /dev/sdf5 /mnt/xp'. But if I use the mount option from the
> >> kde Storage Media panel applet (kdebase-3.5.4-13.6.el5.centos) then
> >> the partion will be mounted without write support. So how to say kde
> >> and CentOS to use ntfs-3g and not ntfs? Maybe by changing some
> >> links?
> > Does <http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions> (written
> > by Akemi Yagi) help you?
> I'm afraid not. I can mount ntfs with write enabled by the console
> command above. But kde (Storage Media panel applet) always mounts the
> partion with ntfs module and never uses ntfs-3g. I think it's an kde
> problem but I don't know how to solve this. If I remove the ntfs
> module then kde still ignores ntfs-3g and doesn't mount the partition
> with an "unknown file system" error any more.
>
> regards
> Olaf

This is apparently a kde problem and you may have better luck on their
mailing list.  I've found this in the kde bug tracker:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139587

but I do not see a fix for the problem.

Akemi