faisal gillani wrote: >Well how can i mount my win2000 ntfs partitions ? >there arent any ntfs supported partitions in the mount >command ? > >thanks > > >===== >*^(o)?., ??,.?^(o)*???*? Allah-hu-Akber*^(o)?., ??,.?^(o)*??*? > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better >http://health.yahoo.com > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Well, the NTFS isn't one filesystem but three mutually incompatible ones under the same name.
NTFS4 we have read and experimental write(Winnt4) NTFS5 is a different system, and conversion is required for NTFS4 (Win2k) NTFS5.1 is still another version and conversion is required. (WinXP) All the versions are SECRET and proprietary. Reverse engineering of the latter two is _probably_ a violation of the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) and don't expect a free software company to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with Microsoft (which Microsoft will not even offer) as their licensing agreement has specific language prohibiting "IP Impaired" use or basically any app that makes provision to be provided in source. This is also true for KDE which is discovering they cannot legally provide support for ASF files, even though the format _is_ known. Microsoft has also established patent on the "Common Internet File System" and again their published standards prohibit use to provide compatibility with "IP Impaired" software. They may make a legal challenge in the near future to the open source community to cease and desist using Samba, which reads and writes the CIFS. Basically if it isn't in the kernel by now, don't expect to see it any time soon. Microsoft is out setting its own standards and erecting barriers of secrecy and legal intimidation to keep others from being compatible. ntfs IS supported READ_ONLY for all three versions. There is _EXPERIMENTAL_ write support that can be compiled into the lernel for NTFS4 ONLY. Now what I am about to give you cost three hours of my time since the XP installer plays with the order of partitions in an existing partition table and really destroyed my linux boots, by pointing /var at a swap partition and saying my real /var was a swap partition. I reinstalled without losing any data, but it took a while to puzzle out what had happened. To all of your others out there, it is no kidding DEADLY to install windows second. My recovery here was not for the faint of heart--23 partitions on two hdds were thoroughly scrambled by XP renumbering. I had to rescue boot and find root and edit fstab, and that still didn't work because my old /var partition was renumbered where swap was so my logs disappeared at swapon... A reinstall was necessary formatting /boot / and /usr fortunately I keep /home /usr/local and /opt separate. I could have used expert mode on fdisk to recover--redoing my old partition table-- but that still would not have covered the destruction of /var. /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,user,umask=0 1 1 That will mount and read ntfs systems and it was tested NTFS5.1, so the kernel has read-only support for all three, Just drop that (renumbered for your system, if necessary), to /etc/fstab, and it will mount and support reading from winsux(I have never called it that before, but I think I will follow that nomenclature henceforth). Civileme
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