myang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > My kernel was compiled without NTFS filesystem support. > Now I have a harddrive formated as NTFS, and I'd like to > read it under linux. > > I don't want to recompile the whole kernel. > > What should I do? Can I compile the NTFS support as a single > module and load it in? How?
You may want to back up your module tree just to be safe: tar -cjvf ~/modules.tar.bz2 /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ Then, in the source tree you used for the currently running kernel, make sure you still have the .config (/usr/src/linux/.config), and run make menuconfig Enable NTFS read support as a module (make sure your other modules are still there), exit and save the config. As long as nothing changed in the kernel, run make modules_install NOTE: this will replace everything in your module tree for this kernel! Make sure the only change from last compile is adding the NTFS read module! After it's done, depmod -ae && modprobe ntfs and you should be good to go. HTH, Cooper. -- [email protected] mailing list
