mount: ntfs not recognised?

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>> I burned Centos 5.2 LiveCD and booted his computer from it. Works great. 
>> I can browse through one partition on his HD, sde1, but sde2 is not 
>> mounted automatically and when I try to mount it manually, I get the 
>> following error message:
>>
>> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
>>
>> ntfs is shown as a filesystem type on that partition when using hardware 
>> manager.
>>
>> What should I think about that? Any ideas what next?
>>     
>
> Perhaps centos is using too ancient a kernel to support modern versions
> of ntfs, or perhaps ntfs in need of repair can't be mounted.
>
>   
I solved the problem by booting from Ubuntu LiveCD. Centos, like RedHat 
and Fedora, do not include support for ntfs, as I read somewhere. I had 
no idea about that.

zb.
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