[CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

Sun Nov 1 22:49:49 UTC 2009
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Ron Loftin <reloftin at twcny.rr.com> 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.

> 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.

Could you show us the output returned by:

uname -mr
ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko`
ls -l `find /lib/modules -name fuse.ko`

Akemi