Mounting NTFS Partition

In Fedora you can mount NTFS partition as read only. You also need a small package to mount ntfs on Fedora. You can download it from http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ . But before download it you have to check your kernel version and processor. So do following steps.

• First thing is you have to know the kernel version. To get it open a terminal and type following command and hit enter.
  
  uname -r
  
  You should see a response something like one of these:
  2.6.9-1.667
  2.4.18-3
  2.4.18-17.7.x
  2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
  2.6.8-1.521
  
  The version might also have one of the following suffixes:
  smp
  bigmem
  hugemem
  BOOT
  
  *Note: If the result ends with smp then you have a multi-processor computer (you probably already knew that).
  
• Next thing is you have to find about your processor. To get type following command in a terminal and hit enter.
  
  uname -m
  
  You'll see out put like i686.
  
• Now downloading time. You have to download package mach to kernel version and processor. As a example if your kernel version is 2.6.9-1.667 and processor is i686, then you have to search 2.6.9-1.667 ntfs driver in i686 category in http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ downloading page.
  
• Install the downloaded package. The you have to give some few check to determine all are ok or not.
  Type following command in a terminal and hit enter.
  
  /sbin/modprobe ntfs
  
  There should not be any output. If there are a lot of error messages see the Help Section.
  Type following command also in a terminal and hit enter.
  
  dmesg | grep NTFS
  
  You'll see something like this.
  NTFS driver 2.1.20 [Flags: R/W MODULE]
  
  You can now check that the kernel really understands NTFS. The output may vary slightly, but you are looking for the entry ntfs. Type following command and hit enter.
  
  cat /proc/filesystems
  
  Output may like following. Check the ntfs is included there.
  
  

  nodev	sysfs
  nodev	rootfs
  nodev	bdev
  nodev	proc
  nodev	sockfs
  nodev	binfmt_misc
  nodev	usbfs
  nodev	usbdevfs
  nodev	futexfs
  nodev	tmpfs
  nodev	pipefs
  nodev	eventpollfs
  nodev	devpts
  	ext2
  nodev	ramfs
  nodev	hugetlbfs
  	iso9660
  nodev	mqueue
  nodev	selinuxfs
  	ext3
  	vfat
  	ntfs
  nodev	rpc_pipefs
  nodev	autofs

  
  
• Let's start mounting. In a termininal type
  
  /sbin/fdisk -l
  
  and found the ntfs partions. Lets think hda1 is ntfs. Now create a folder in /media/ Named with C: Now type following command and hit enter in a ternimal.
  
  mount /dev/hda1 /media/C: -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
  
  To make permanant this mount type gedit /etc/fstab and hit enter. Add the following line end of that document and save.
  
  /dev/hda1 /media/C: ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0