Can't Mount NTFS Drive
By John Swindells
20 Nov 2006
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I want to mount the old XP (well, Vista) partition in my system. If I try:
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mount -t ntfs /dev/md0 /xp
I get this error:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
The solution on LinuxQuestions.org is to install the ntfs-3g package.
This works fine, but the next problem is that the drive is actually a RAID device. The solution, found on Fedora Forums, is to mount the partition found in /dev/mapper/, eg, mine was /dev/mapper/nvidia_ajffijefp1 - use the one ending in p and a number. My line in /etc/fstab looks like this:
/dev/mapper/nvidia_ajffijefp1 /xp ntfs-3g defaults 0 0