On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Ron Loftin <reloftin at twcny.rr.com> wrote: > > 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. > > This statement is a direct quote from CentOS Wiki ( http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS) [image: <!>] As of CentOS 5.4 (kernel 2.6.18-164 or newer), the fuse kernel module is included in the kernel itself. Therefore, dkms and dkms-fuse are no longer required. If you have previously installed dkms-fuse, please * uninstall* it by a *yum remove dkms-fuse* command. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091031/7c3cd5cf/attachment-0005.html>