Re: [RLUG] Red Hat & NTFS

Ed Jaeger Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:28:47 +0000

It does work - I'm using it right now. RedHat disables NTFS in their distribution (along with MP3 & DVD playback), so there's 2 ways to get it back: Recompile the kernel with it turned on or install RPMs with the modules already compiled from someplace like linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net. Of course, the precompiled version has to be for your exact CPU (the one the kernel is compiled for, regardless of the actual CPU).

Assuming that you've installed the correct module/RPM (i.e. not used the i386 when you're running a kernel compiled for i686), you should make sure the module loads:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# modprobe ntfs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lsmod | grep ntfs
ntfs                   59104   1  (autoclean)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#

Also, are you sure your NTFS partition is the first one on the disk?

fdisk -l /dev/hdb

will give you the layout.

For reference, this is what I show:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mount
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/dos_c type ntfs (ro,umask=000)
/dev/hda2 on /mnt/dos_d type vfat (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
bagman:/home/redhat on /mnt/redhat type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.100.89)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#

Dennis Bagley wrote:

Okay,

This is probably a newbie question but.....

I'm feeling totally confused. I just installed RH9 on a new drive. On the old drive I have win2k. (No flames please I have to have it for work.)

I would like to be able to read or even pull some files off of the win2k drive.

Should be simple except that RH9 does not include NTFS support in the kernel

So I installed the Kernel-NTFS RPM.
Still no joy when I type
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win
I get error msg
  wrong fs type, bad option,blah, blah blah.
maybe I'm not listing the drive correctly

in cmos RH is on HDD0 Win2k is on HDD1

I thought the correct designation would be hdb1 for the mount command.
When I took a peek under /dev
is show hda1 thru hda 29   and hdb1 thru hdb30.
I also show similar for hdc, hdd, hde, hdf and on trough hdt. (WTF???)

I don't remember this kind of thing under Mandrake or SuSE.

Thanks

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