On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Cannot mount NTFS filesystems under Xfce4 > > Keith Roberts wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> >>> Keith Roberts wrote: >>>> I have installed the following 2 packages on Centos 5.6, and >>>> used GParted to successfully create an 8GB NTFS partition, >>>> on some unused HDD space. >>>> I'm running Xfce 4, and when I try to mount the NTFS file >>>> system, I get an error box with 'ntfs - unknown filetype' >>> >>> you need fuse-ntfs-3g , get it from repoforge. >> >> Thanks Nicolas. Is that as well as what I already have >> installed, or instead of? > > fuse-ntfs-3g is sufficient for rw access to files on ntfs partitions, > but keeping what you have shouldn't harm. > > also, read this: > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS Thanks again Nicolas. Somehow I managed to install ntfs-3g, instead of fuse-ntfs-3g: Installed Packages Name : ntfs-3g Arch : i386 Epoch : 2 Version : 2011.4.12 Release : 3.el5 Size : 623 k Repo : installed Summary : Linux NTFS userspace driver URL : http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ And it works OK now thanks! I have managed to mount the NTFS HDD partition, and also copied some large files to it OK. So that's really handy thing to be able to do. Kind Regards, Keith ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------