Richard Adams wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2000,  Razvan Sandu wrote about,  NTFS:
> > Sorry, does anyone knows if Linux can read NTFS partitions from Windows
> > NT? I couldn't find this type in fdisk's list ...
> 
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help
> Windows NT NTFS support (read only)
> CONFIG_NTFS_FS
>   NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT. Say Y if you want
>   to get read access to files on NTFS partitions of your hard drive.
>   The Linux NTFS driver supports most of the mount options of the VFAT
>   driver, see Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt. Saying Y here will
>   give you read-only access to NTFS partitions.
> 
>   This code is also available as a module ( = code which can be
>   inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want).
>   The module will be called ntfs.o. If you want to compile it as a
>   module, say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt.
> 
> NTFS read-write support (experimental)
> CONFIG_NTFS_RW
>   If you say Y here, you will (hopefully) be able to write to NTFS
>   file systems as well as read from them. The read-write support
>   in NTFS is far from being complete and is not well tested. If you
>   enable this, back up your NTFS volume first since it may get
>   damaged.
> 
>   If unsure, say N.
> 
> Thats is from a 2.2.14 source tree, however i belive all 2.2.xx kernels
> support it.

I think it is turned on by most distros by default - if memory servers
my RH5.2 machine had it straight from CD's 
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