Mounting ntfs on linux

How to mount NTFS partition on linux?
thanks in advance

I assume you mean redhat, oracle enterprise linux or Centos.
(it's a good practice to include as much information in a question as possible, the quality of the answer is strongly depended on the quality of the question)
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Can't mount ntfs from linux

Dear Sirs,
I have install linux Redhat5.3 release 2.6.18-128.el5PAE.i am trying to mount some of the drive of windows 7 on my linux system.
Someone can help me with the rpm for the same.

[linux.softpedia.com/get/System/.../ntfs-3g-15028.shtml] linux.softpedia.com/get/System/.../ntfs-3g-15028.shtml
or
[www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download|www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download] www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download|www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download
Use ntfs-3g package to mount ntfs drives into linux.
use following command at shell prompt
$ mount -t /dev/sda1 /mnt/drive_win7
Please find your drive such as sda1 or sda2 or anything from fdisk command and press p to print and press q to quit.
Also, if you want to mount every time you login into linux system.
Then you have to change /etc/inittab file.
Google it out. Easy commands out there for newbies like me and you there.
Regards,
Dave.
Edited by: 897450 on Dec 19, 2011 3:15 AM

Can not able to mount ntfs external hard disk

Hi
Getting the below error when try to mount NTFS external harddisk
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204885504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 121602 976761558 7 HPFS/NTFS
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media
[root@devtest ~]# sudo mkdir /media/Skliros_Diskos
[root@devtest ~]# sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/Skliros_Diskos
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'
Rgrds,

Oracle Linux NTFS how-to:
Oracle Linux NTFS how-to

[Solved] Non-root user cannot access mounted ntfs filesystem

Hi -,
i have a dualboot system (arch/xfce + win7) and i use a ntfs partition /dev/sda2 to store files i use with both operating systems. I added the partition to fstab and it gets mounted, but i cannot access it with my non-root user. With root it works fine...
My fstab:
# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
LABEL=home /home ext4 defaults 0 1
LABEL=root / ext4 defaults 0 1
LABEL=swap swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/sda2 ntfs defaults 0 2
Is there any option that allows all users to use the mounted device? Or how is this usually done ...
Last edited by muzzel (2012-05-30 20:39:58)

See: NTFS-3G for important setup information.
My fstab line looks like:
/dev/sdb1 /media/Win_USB ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=0022 0 0
This sets up some important parameters which the NTFS-3G Wiki Page covers. Basically, "ntfs" is only a basic driver and is built into the kernel. "ntfs-3g" is a much better, and less disk-eating, driver that you should install and use if you need the drive in Linux any more than occasionally. My fstab line makes my user (1000) the owner and the masks lets me write and etc to it. When you install NTFS-3G it is automatically used when you use the mount command to mount NTFS drives. In fstab, as above, you would specify it explicitly.
You can find your own user number by entering "id" at a terminal.

Mounting NTFS on Solaris 10

How can i munt the NTFS partition of my Windows XP on Solaris 10?
Can somebody help me????
It can be possible?

Package FSWmisc now mounts NTFS partitions directly. No special mount_ntfs program required. It is based on Martin Rosenau's mount_ntfs. Package FSWpart comes with prtpart, which displays all the partitions, including extended partitions, and partition types.
See http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/binfiles/README.FSWfsmisc.txt
Download from http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/FSWpart.tar.gz and http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/FSWfsmisc.tar.gz
Install with pkgadd -d . (in the directory you unpacked the above two tarballs).
Here's a sample /etc/vfstab line:
/dev/dsk/c0d0p1     -     /c     ntfs     -     no     roAnd sample output from mount and xlsmounts:
# mount
/c on 127.0.0.1:/ remote/read only/setuid/devices/port=33249/public/vers=2/proto=udp/xattr/dev=4700004 on Sun Nov 26 19:42:29 2006
# xlsmounts
PHYSICAL DEVICE                 LOGICAL DEVICE      FS    PID         ADDR Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0d0p1                /dev/dsk/c0d0p1    ntfs   3354 127.0.0.1:/ /cAlso both mount_ntfs and FSWfsmisc work with Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris ("Nevada").

Mount NTFS...

How can i mount ntfs partitions in arch like i had in ubuntu?
Automatic mount only for usb and cd...
And list all ntfs on places without mount... and when i click on one, it automount...

mrunion wrote:
Here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support
Remeber, SEARCH before asking.
I search but didn't find nothing...
And your link doesn't help much...
I know how to manualy mount a ntfs... but i wanted to have all listed on "places" in gnome like i had on ubuntu.

Mounting devices in linux with java

I am writing an application that is remotely like file-manager. In some situations that app needs to mount devices in Linux environment (run *nix-commands like 'mount /media/sda1' ) to ensure that attached devices are really available.
How can this be done with Java.
Thanks,
Pete

Runtime.exec lets you execute a native app, for more details and things that will likely go wrong see http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2000/jw-1229-traps.html
An option would be using JNI and writing a wrapper for the C-function. Without a doubt someone has already done this, so, as always... google is your friend... http://www.google.fi/search?q=java+unix+mount
This looks promising: http://www.xenonsoft.demon.co.uk/products/javaunix/

KDE's Dolphin can't mount NTFS partitions after upgrade to systemd

Hi, I just finished to migrate my system to a pure systemd setup. Everithing seems to work fine, except that Dolphin can't mount NTFS partitions anymore, as it was able to do before. I'm not 100% sure that systemd is the culprit, but nevertheless it is a big change in my system so I assume that it may be the problem.
Trying to mount with Dolphin I get this error message:
An error occurred while accessing 'sATA-a', the system responded: The requested operation has failed.: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
Error opening '/dev/sdb1': Permesso negato
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Permesso negato
Please check '/dev/sdb1' and the ntfs-3g binary permissions,
and the mounting user ID. More explanation is provided at
http://tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#unprivileged
I used to get this kind of error aeons ago when trying to mount from CL; puzzling enough, mounting from CL now works:
$ mount /media/disks/sATA-a
$ ls /media/disks/sATA-a
Documenti Download $RECYCLE.BIN RECYCLER sATA-b System Volume Information Temp Video
This is the relevant entry in my fstab (I don't know if Dolphin cares about it...):
#sATA-a
UUID=D6789B21789B0003 /media/disks/sATA-a ntfs-3g noauto,users 0 0
And finally:
$ ll `which ntfs-3g`
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 125K 21 apr 12.13 /bin/ntfs-3g
Can anybody give me a hint? Thanks.

OK, the mess is growing up. Today I switched my laptop to systemd, and the mount problem has appeared on this system as well. So I am confident that this is a systemd-related issue, and maybe some stock Arch config file is broken. I have this entry on my /etc/fstab for the ntfs-3g drive:
UUID=88705BA9705B9D2E /media/vista ntfs-3g noauto,users,exec 0 0
I compiled ntfs-3g with internal fuse support and did the setuid trick:
$ ls -l `which ntfs-3g`
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 125K 16 apr 2012 /bin/ntfs-3g
I can mount the disk using the command:
$ mount /media/vista/
$
It works flawlessly, so ntfs-3g works. If I try to mount it with udisks I get:
$ /usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/sda2 --mount-options users,exec
Mount failed: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
Error opening '/dev/sda2': Permesso negato
Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Permesso negato
Please check '/dev/sda2' and the ntfs-3g binary permissions,
and the mounting user ID. More explanation is provided at
http://tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#unprivileged
It sounds to me that udisks is trying to mount the disk as a different user, but I'm not an expert so I might be wrong. If I remove the entry in /etc/fstab then udisks will ask for the password. Repeating the same steps but for an ext3 partition, I am able to mount with udisks when there is a proper fstab entry, and I'm asked for a password when that entry is commented out.
Based on these findings, I strongly suspect that there is some problem with logind configuration in my system. I have been going round and round for hours, serching the web and the wiki (which BTW is in a very bad shape, containing outdated or no informations about mount policies in the polkit and udev sections), and now I feel I need some help to go through it... thanks.

"mount: only root can mount" or "Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS"

I'm trying to set up an NTFS partition to use as a common data partition between Arch and Windows. I have it added to fstab so that any user in the ntfsuser group can have access to it, but if it gets unmounted accidentally from the "eject" symbol in the nautilus gui, you have to sudo to mount it back up. Is there a way for it to be remounted automatically when you click on the partition again in Nautilus? I've searched all through the forums and looked through several articles on the wiki but haven't been able to come up with anything. The error I get says
mount: only root can mount /dev/sda4 on /home/adam/UserData
I've tried adding the users option to fstab, but that only manages to change the error to
Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE
library. Either mount the volume as root, or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated
FUSE support and make it setuid root. Please see more information at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged
I've tried the suggestions at the link in the error, as well as tried the solutions given in [solved] Gnome : mounting NTFS partition as user and a few other posts, but still nothing. If possible, I'd prefer to stay away from the users option in fstab, since it adds a redundant link to the sidebar in nautilus with a different name.

@Mr.Elendig: It is mounted through fstab normally, but in nautilus there's an eject icon on the sidebar next to the name of the drive which I've accidentally clicked on a couple times if I'm just trying to open the drive real quick. Once its been unmounted like that it won't let me remount unless I use sudo. I'm just looking for something to make it a little more convenient than having to pop open a cli and type in a password.
I'll try the suid root when I get home tonight, otherwise I'll look into autofs.

Ask about mounting NTFS in Solaris 10

hello ev body
I got a 80Go hard drive
in which installed win XP .. linux mandrake9.2 and reecently the Solaris10
the partition of my disk are
[b]principal -1-
Fat32 partition [32 Mo] principal (is the booting )
Fat32 parttition [6.6 Go] for data storing purpse
[b]principal -2-
Solaris Partition [15 Go] where Solaris is installed
also mounted / ; /export/home ;/... all typical unix mounted
[b]principal -3 -
NTFS partition [10 Go] for data purpse
NTFS partition [10 Go] for data purpse
NTFS partition [15 Go] for data purpse
NTFS partition [14 Go] where installed win Xp
linux swap partion [512 Mo]
ext2 partition [3 Go] where installed linux
free space [<500M]
I wish this is detailled enough to give me the right solution to see all partions when running Solaris
I don't care about writing access in NTFS ..
Personally I successfully mounted The 2 Fat32 partions in solaris with
#mount -F pcfs -o rw /dev/dsk/c0d0p0:c /mnt/C
#mount -F pcfs -o rw /dev/dsk/c0d0p0:c /mnt/C
and I failed to see the NTFS Partions
So please if there is a way to do tell me how to do
or if you need more details I will do better expl..

Still Have no Answer !!
but when

Cannot mount NTFS file system on USB drive

I plug in external disk via USB drive. I attempt to mount drive. I've downloaded several NTFS rpms.
I believe the issue is that I do not yet have the correct NTFS rpm. Any help?
[root@kclinux1 media]# mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc1 /media/usbdrive/
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
[root@kclinux1 media]# cat /proc/filesystems |grep ntf
[root@kclinux1 media]# uname -a
Linux kclinux1 2.6.18-164.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 04:41:04 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@kclinux1 media]# rpm -qa|grep ntfs
ntfsprogs-1.9.4-1.2.el4.rf
kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-2.1.27-0.rr.10.11
kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.18-128.el5xen-2.1.27-0.rr.10.11
[root@kclinux1 media]#

try
step 1)
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 / i386:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 / x86_64:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS//rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 / i386:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 / x86_64:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.x86_64.rpmstep 2)
apt-get updatestep 3)
> yum install ntfs-3g
> ntfs-3g /dev/sdxy /<mount directory>
rgrds

Mounting NTFS on OEL

I have newly installed OEL R1 and im having problem on mounting my SDA1 and SDA2 NTFS partitions on linux. I have a dual booting systems. The OEL installations resides on Extended Partitions.
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda2 /win/mpoint
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
Can anyone help me on this?
Thank you very much.

facing a bit problem can anyone help?
[color="Red"]
uname -r
2.6.18-92.el5xen
[root@localhost Desktop]# rpm -ivh fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-164.el5xen-2.7.4-8_12.el5.i686.rpm \ fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5-2.7.4-8_12.el5.i686.rpm fuse-libs-2.7.4-8_12.el5.x86_64.rpm
warning: fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-164.el5xen-2.7.4-8_12.el5.i686.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 66534c2b
error: Failed dependencies:
        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.el5xen is needed by fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-164.el5xen-2.7.4-8_12.el5.i686
        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 is needed by fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5-2.7.4-8_12.el5.i686
[root@localhost Desktop]# rpm -ivh fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5-2.7.4-8_12.el5.x86_64.rpm
warning: fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5-2.7.4-8_12.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 66534c2b
error: Failed dependencies:
        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 is needed by fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5-2.7.4-8_12.el5.x86_64
[root@localhost Desktop]# rpm -ivh fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen-2.7.4-8_12.el5.x86_64.rpm
warning: fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen-2.7.4-8_12.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 66534c2b
error: Failed dependencies:
        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen is needed by fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen-2.7.4-8_12.el5.x86_64
[root@localhost Desktop]# [color]
can you guide what i am doning wrong here?

Problem mounting ntfs drives

[svs@mugen media]$ ls -l
total 104
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-10 15:20 cd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-06-17 19:44 d1
drwxr-xr-x 7 svs root 8192 1969-12-31 16:00 disk
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32768 2008-06-19 18:56 disk-1
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40960 2008-06-24 11:01 disk-2
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 2008-06-24 10:51 disk-3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-10 15:20 dvd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-10 15:20 fl
I have few doubts ..
1.Why disk-1,2,3 have root as their owner(they r NTFS , disk is FAT) & disk doesnt
2.
[svs@mugen media]$ sudo chown -c svs disk-1
Password:
changed ownership of `disk-1' to svs
[svs@mugen media]$ ls -l
total 104
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-10 15:20 cd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-06-17 19:44 d1
drwxr-xr-x 7 svs root 8192 1969-12-31 16:00 disk
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32768 2008-06-19 18:56 disk-1
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40960 2008-06-24 11:01 disk-2
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 2008-06-24 10:51 disk-3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-10 15:20 dvd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-10 15:20 fl
this means chown is not working ....
3.wen i hiberbate windows i cant access my ntfs drives , y?
p.s disk-1,2,3 are coloured "green" instead of "blue" in terminal as if sticky bit is set

/media is a dynamic directory, unlike /mnt, that's probably why chown doesn't work.
Changing contents of a drive mounted in some OS while it is hibernated can be dangerous. That's why Windows drives are unmounted when you hibernate Linux and that's probably why you can't access your ntfs drives if Windows is hibernated.

[SOLVED] Cannot mount ntfs drive

Every time I try to mount my Windows 7 hdd, I receive an error:
fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy
The commands I used to try to mount all resulted in the same error:
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs
sudo mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/C0940E83940E7BE2 /mnt/ntfs
Switching to root also did not remedy the error. Putting the entry in fstab does not mount it at boot, giving the same error.
fdisk -l reveals the following:
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x79109c6b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 97659134 48829536 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 97659135 107426654 4883760 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 107426655 1953520064 923046705 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xed6ad455
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 976771071 488384512 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
EDIT: Solution:
As it turns out, a couple years ago, I had a mirrored RAID. Even when got rid of the RAID, got a new drive, reformatted and installed Arch, my secondary, NTFS drive would not mount.
Here is exactly what fixed it:
Issuing the command `cat /proc/mdstat` shows all RAID arrays. Mine showed the following:
Personalities :
md127 : inactive sdb[1](S)
488386496 blocks
`sudo mdadm --stop /dev/md127` stopped the array.
`sudo mdadm --remove /dev/md127` removed the array.
new output of `cat /proc/mdstat`
Personalities :
unused devices: <none>
`sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/1` worked.
Last edited by AngryKoala (2011-06-11 23:30:31)

vadmium wrote:
You don’t happen to have something that sdb1 partition mounted or opened somewhere else? If I try to mount my NTFS partition while it’s already mounted it gives the same “Device or resource busy”.
What does the “mount” and “cat /proc/mounts” tell you?
Output of mount:
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=506959,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
tmpfs on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777,size=10m)
tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755,size=10m)
/dev/sda3 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
Output of cat /proc/mounts:
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
sys /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=506959,mode=755 0 0
run /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext4 rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0

Mounting ntfs partitions at boot up read only and starting X at boot

Hi,
I want to mount my windos partition at boot so I can build a library in amarok without having to copy all of my music to my linux partition. However I only want to mount read only, as I don't want to risk messing the partition up. I followed the instructions on the wiki here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support
And added a line in /etc/fstab "/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0333,dmask=0333,locale=en_PH.utf8 0 0" without quotations, but the partition was not mounted so I removed the line and now am back to my original /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
I thought that I should change the numbers to 0 3 or something but I don't have a clue what they are for, could anyone offer any advice on how I should proceed?
Also X refuses to load at boot, I have to log in as root and run /etc/rc.d/kdm start. I have put kdm in /etc/rc.d and I changed my /etc/inittab default runlevel from 3 to 5. I tried also changing the login manager from xdm to kdm in the same file but nothing ahs made a difference. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Calef13

Thanks a lot for the speedy replies, this is a great community here btw, very helpful. You were right mixtr, I got away with just
"/dev/sda1/ /mnt/sda1 ntfs-3g user,ro,auto 0 0"
And adding kdm to the deamons line solved my problem. I was trying to add it to the rc.d file rather than the rc.conf
I had my doubts at first but I really like the fact that arch doesn't hold your hand and leaves everything up to you, I have already learned loads about the config files for linux among many other things and have come ot appreciate the lack of abstraction in arch. I really prefer this to previous OSes, but wish I had installed kdemod as the 'vanilla' kde from the repositories installs pretty much everything imaginable, but my system still runs very quickly.
Calef13

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