On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 23:39 -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > 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. > I think that you have misunderstood my question. I know how to do it with the packages from RPMforge ( which is where I get fuse-ntfs-3g ) but I'm trying to evaluate the kmod-ntfs package from ELrepo.org. There seems to be something I'm not understanding about this approach, or I'm not finding the correct documentation for it. -- Ron Loftin reloftin at twcny.rr.com "God, root, what is difference ?" Piter from UserFriendly