NTFS filesystem not recognized by mount

[Paul Howarth]

Todd Wease wrote:
> Trying to mount ntfs partition gives an error that the filesystem is
> unknown.
> 
> /dev/hda1  /mnt/winxp  ntfs  pamconsole,umask=000,ro 0 0
> 
> [wease1 at desktop: ~] $ sudo mount /mnt/winxp
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
> [wease1 at desktop: ~] $ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
> 
> Is there something I'm doing wrong here or was support for ntfs not
> compiled into the kernel or something else?  Thanks.

It's not compiled into the kernel, probably for legal reasons.

See http://www.fedorafaq.org/#ntfs for workarounds.

Paul.