Aaaaaa, I'm pulling out my hair over here! I have an external USB drive which I had at work, connected just fine to my CentOS 5.3 box. I recall there was some jiggery-pokery involved, but do not recall just what. So now I'm on my wife's freshly installed CentOS 5.3 laptop trying to get it going, and I keep getting errors about FATAL: Module fuse not found. I saw this message from the May archives : http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2009-May/002345.html and this as well http://www.johnson.homelinux.net/mywiki/NTFS but no luck! [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep fuse dkms-fuse-2.7.4-1.nodist.rf fuse-ntfs-3g-2009.4.4-2.el5.rf fuse-2.7.4-1.el5.rf [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep ntfs ntfsprogs-1.13.1-6.el5 ntfsprogs-gnomevfs-1.13.1-6.el5 fuse-ntfs-3g-2009.4.4-2.el5.rf [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep dkms dkms-2.0.20.4-1.el5.rf dkms-fuse-2.7.4-1.nodist.rf Can someone answer me this? This "fuse module" ... the one that I'm supposed to be able to add with "modprobe fuse". What RPM provides it? And what file should I be looking for to confirm that it is there? Oh, and just to show that the drive does show up at least : [root at localhost ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 19457 156183930 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 121601 976760001 7 HPFS/NTFS thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"