[CentOS] ntfs

Sun Dec 5 22:13:38 UTC 2010
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:29:47 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> Ritika Garg a écrit :
> > CentOS 5.5 is installed in the system. I installed the package 
> > kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-3.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > I mounted Seagate external hard disk. I am able to copy contents from 
> > the hard disk to the system but not from the system to the hard disk.
> > 
> 
> I've been following this thread, and I'm wondering: why bother with NTFS 
> in the first place? If you have a mixed environment where you need 
> Windows to access your external hard disk, you might as well format it 
> with a FAT filesystem. Linux supports FAT natively, without making you 
> jump through burning loops.
> 
> If you don't know how to achieve this, here's how :
> 
> 1) Backup all your data.
> 
> 2) Given your external disk is /dev/sda, launch fdisk, delete the NTFS 
> partition and create a single FAT partition (hex code 0b).
> 
> 3) Install 'dosfstools' and format your disk :
> 
> # mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
> 
> 4) From now on, mount your disk as FAT :
> 
> # mount [-t vfat] /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Niki Kovacs

Will FAT support the larger external disks, such as the .5TB and larger?

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