I've been trying to mount an NTFS partition on a system dual booting XP and FC6, following the instructions in the "Personal Fedora Core 6 Installation Guide" (http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc6.html#ntfs). These are basically: (1) yum install fuse fuse-libs ntfs-3g ntfsprogs ntfsprogs-gnomevfs (2) create directory /mnt/winNTFS (3) add this line to /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/winNTFS ntfs-3g ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0 But then I get this error message during booting: Fuse mount point creation error. No such file or directory Unmounting /dev/sda1 Failed When I log on I find the partition has not mounted. While logged on, if I do this command (also in the instructions): mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/winNTFS -t ntfs-3g -ro umask=0222 I get this message: WARNING: Old FUSE kernel module detected. This means, some driver features are not available (swap file on NTFS, boot from NTFS by LILO), and unmount is not safe unless you make sure the ntfs-3g process naturally terminates after calling 'umount'. The safe FUSE kernel driver is included in the official Linux kernels since version 2.6.20-rc1, or in the FUSE 2.6 software package. Please see the next page for more help: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#fuse26 The NTFS partition mounts successfully and I'm able to read files. But when I shutdown the system I get several screens-worth of error messages zipping by, including: umount /mnt/winNTFS block devices not supported on fuse which make me nervous. Does anyone have insight as to what's going on? Is this procedure for mounting a NTFS partition safe or am I risking damage? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks for the help! --Jerry
