[CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 18:26 +1200, Rob Kampen wrote:
> On 04/15/2014 02:42 PM, Russell Miller wrote:
> > On Apr 14, 2014, at 7:23 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 4/14/2014 6:06 PM, Rob Kampen wrote:
> >>> I recently received an 8GB usb stick that fails to mount on my fully
> >>> patched CentOS 6.5 desktop machine.
> >>>
> >>> The stick works just fine on a windoze 7 laptop (my daughter's) with
> >>> no special drivers installed.
> >> most USB sticks are formatted FAT32
> >>

> file when applied /dev/sdf/(1) indicted a block device - nothing else 
> helpful.
Try as root: 
dd if=/dev/sdf1 of=somefile count=100
file somefile

regards, Louis