Mounting external firewire hard drive in redhat?

touser · 5th September 2002, 2:13 PM

Hi all, i have an external 60gb firewire hard drive formatted with the NTFS file system which has my whole mp3 collection on it. My question is, how would i mount this drive for read only support as i know write support for NTFS is very flakey in linux and i cannot afford to lose the data on this drive. I am running redhat 7.3 with the KDE 3.0 desktop and i am a complete newb so if anyone could please tell me if this is possible and how to do this in newb instructions it would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks in advance!

StormWaterdrain · 5th September 2002, 3:36 PM

I have been meaning to ask this for some time. Never even bothered to look into in myself.....

I have a couple of externals that could do with mounting.

Quadbox · 6th September 2002, 7:59 AM

Redhat doesn't include NTFS support into the default kernel. You'll have to recompile the kernel, with ntfs read support.

Bern · 6th September 2002, 8:42 AM

To expand on Quadbox's answer, redhat dosn't even include ntfs support as a kernel module (unlike every other distro), so your choices are, 1) recompile your kernel with ntfs or, 2) install another distro.

5th September 2002, 2:13 PM	#1
touser Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 59	Mounting external firewire hard drive in redhat? Hi all, i have an external 60gb firewire hard drive formatted with the NTFS file system which has my whole mp3 collection on it. My question is, how would i mount this drive for read only support as i know write support for NTFS is very flakey in linux and i cannot afford to lose the data on this drive. I am running redhat 7.3 with the KDE 3.0 desktop and i am a complete newb so if anyone could please tell me if this is possible and how to do this in newb instructions it would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks in advance!

6th September 2002, 8:42 AM	#4
Bern Off the rails Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Brighton, QLD Posts: 5,000	To expand on Quadbox's answer, redhat dosn't even include ntfs support as a kernel module (unlike every other distro), so your choices are, 1) recompile your kernel with ntfs or, 2) install another distro. __________________ \| Free Beer \| p-two.net \| OCAU Forum Rules \| \| news \| stff \| stfw \| wiki \| \|

5th September 2002, 3:36 PM	#2
StormWaterdrain Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sydney Posts: 1,303	I have been meaning to ask this for some time. Never even bothered to look into in myself..... I have a couple of externals that could do with mounting.

6th September 2002, 7:59 AM	#3
Quadbox Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Brisbane 4065 Posts: 5,090	Redhat doesn't include NTFS support into the default kernel. You'll have to recompile the kernel, with ntfs read support.