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: > > 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 out-of-date files.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. > > > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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 -- Paul Schoonderwoerd Pollux IT - Open Source oplossingen & Netwerkbeveiliging tel: 0294-283832 http://www.Pollux-IT.nl