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? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments