On 10/1/2013 8:00 PM, g wrote: > i am going to run a fresh install of centos 6.4 and want to mount 3 > partitions of oos that are formatted as ntfs in an oem installed box. > > if during install, i set up partitions /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, and > /dev/sdb1 as ntfs, will install install ntfs software or will i have > to select it later on in installation? > > also, is it better to mount them under /mnt to keep /media clean? what is "oos" ? you cannot install CentOS on a NTFS volume. use ext3 or ext4 for the system volumes. to install the ntfs support and tools, you will first need to add the EPEL package repository, then # yum install *ntfs-3g ntfsprogs* and then read up on how to use ntfs-3g -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast