External Hardrive with my Acer

Hi,
is there a way i can use an external hardrive with the Acer via the usb port? I've tried and the computer recognises it, but says it does not support ntfs. Obviously usb sticks work, but why not hardrives? I'm a complete novice when it comes to computers, so appologies if this is daft question.
Cheers.

 

What OS are you running?

 

Can we assume that you're running Linpus on your AAO? If so, you'll need to install a package that allows Linpus to work with NTFS drives.

If you haven't already run this command in a terminal, do so:

sudo yum update fedora-release

This will update your repositories so that you're using the latest ones. You should only have to run this command once.

Then run this command to install the NTFS driver:

sudo yum install ntfs-3g

After doing so, your NTFS drive should work.

Cheers.

 

Cheers rbil, yes i'm running linpus. Those commands worked spot on.

 

i've followed these instructions, but whenever I plug in my WD passport hdd it still always automounts as NTFS readonly.

Am I missing something obvious (quite likely knowing me)?

Neil

 

Did you run liveupdate and install the ntfs readonly driver acer provides ?

If so, try installing ntfs-3g again.

 

Definetly did a live-update last night and installed the ntfs-3g.

I think I'll remove it all and try again or reinstall. Did try a couple of times with no effect. Out of curiosity, where is the automount config held in Linux? I'm a UNIX man (AIX) , but Linux confuses me at times.

Cheers
Neil

 

Then just reinstall with

Code:

sudo yum update ntfs-3g

(after updating fedora-release of course).

Acer likes to keep users safe by not allowing them to write to NTFS. Noble, friendly but a tad bit impractical

Automountconfig is done in the /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab files

 

Actually the mounting should be done through a udev rule, I would think. I don't have an external USB drive formatted NTFS to actually see what rule would be installed when that driver is installed.

Cheers.

 

ok I finally got it working by installing ntfs-config

sudo yum install ntfs-config

then

sudo ntfs-config

I have now set it to RW and my holiday travel blogging machine is now complete.

cheers for the help guys

Neil