[CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

Sun Nov 1 03:39:13 UTC 2009
Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca>

On Saturday 31 October 2009 20:12, Ron Loftin wrote:

> I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older
> version of that "other OS" that I'm using to check out the ELrepo
> version of kmod-ntfs.  After installing as per the directions on the
> ELrepo site, I can mount an NTFS filesystem, and when I type "mount"
> with no options the output tells me that the target filesystem is
> mounted read-write.  However, when I try to create a file on that
> filesystem as root, I get a "Permission denied" error, which leads me
> to think that I'm missing something here.  So far, Google has not
> been very helpful here, so if anyone can shine some light on this, it
> would be welcome.

Try using "mount -t ntfs-3g" rather than "mount -t ntfs". You may have 
to install fuse-ntfs-3g.

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Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> 
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