Re: How do I see all my partitions?

[Chris]

Yep, I meant "not" not "now." It was a tpyo.

As far as compiling a kernel goes, I don't believe I'm ready for that. I'm still at the
point of staring at the PC for 20 minutes, and banging away on the keyboard for another
20 minutes, trying to accomplish something, before giving up and looking in my "dummies" book.

Thanks for your help,
Chris

At 07:04 PM Sunday 12/22/2002, Ray Olszewski wrote:

At 09:26 PM 12/22/02 -0500, Chris wrote:

OK...now that I can see all my partitions, how do I mount an NTFS
partition?
When I try, I receive the error "fs now supported by kernel."

I suspect it says "not" rather than "now". (Sorry to seem picky, and the mistake is easy to spot here, but in troubleshooting, details matter, and a seemling harmless mistake in reporting error messages can lead to the wrong diagnosis.)

And I'm assuming your try consists of a command like "mount -t ntfs /dev/hdXX /mnt/some_mount_point", with suitable choices for XX and some_mount_point .If not, plase tell us the exact command you enter and the exact error you get.

I'm running Red Hat 8.0 (sorry, no idea what the kernel version is - how
do I find this info?).

"uname -a" normally reports it.

Can the kernel be patched to support NTFS?

Probably ... though it does depend on the kernel version, RH8 is unlikely to use an old kernel by default. Recent kernels support read-only access to NTFS filesystems. If yours has the ntfs.o moule compiled, you can add it with "insmod ntfs" or (better) "modprobe ntfs". If it doesn't come with that module, you'll need to compile or get a kernel that does have it (either the module or actuallt compiled into the kernel).


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