NTFS Concerns with FC2

[Adam Antoniak]

Mike McCarty wrote:

> I have a multi-boot machine and need to share some files
> between the Linux and Windows XP OSs. To date, I've been
> either writing to floppy or burning a CD and rebooting, then
> reading in. I'd like to just copy files between some shared
> device, like my Windows XP partition.
>
> I've heard that there is no problem mounting an NTFS volume
> and reading it using Fedora Core 2, but that there are perhaps
> problems *writing* to such a volume from FC2. Since the
> direction I mostly need to go is FC2->WXP, this is of some
> concern to me.
>
> Can anyone answer this question for me? And where do I go
> to research this without bothering people here? New to FCx
> and don't know how to do the search at redhat.com yet.
>
> Mike
>
First of all you must make sure your kernel supporst ntfs filesystem. 
You can download appropriate rpm package here: 
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/
Than you need to reconfigure your fstab.conf file (/etc/fstab.conf)
I just added: /dev/hda1      /mnt/ntfs   ntfs    defaults,umask=0 0 0
Should work as long as your ntfs partition is hda1. Otherwise make sure 
you point to the correct partition.

ADAM