mounting NTFS disk

2004-01-19 Thread Barry Freeman
Hi All, 
I've just got Deb installed without too many problems.

Is there any way to mount an XP (NTFS 3.1) disk ?  I Only need read
access - just want to copy off some docs and stuff.

I did try installing the ntfs fs, but for eg,

# mount /t ntfs /dev/hda1 /

fails with Wrong file system

BAzz


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Re: mounting NTFS disk

2004-01-19 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mo, den 19.01.2004 schrieb Barry Freeman um 10:22:
 Hi All, 
 I've just got Deb installed without too many problems.
 
 Is there any way to mount an XP (NTFS 3.1) disk ?  I Only need read
 access - just want to copy off some docs and stuff.
 
 I did try installing the ntfs fs, but for eg,
 
 # mount /t ntfs /dev/hda1 /
 fails with Wrong file system
 
 BAzz

Aargh. Two big mistakes. To pass options to linux (or **ix in general)
programs, you have to use a hyphen sign -, not a slash. Slashes are
Dos-style. (This is where the Wrong file system message comes from, I
assume). Second mistake: / is the mount point for the root partition. Go
ahead and create a directory like /mnt/windows and use this as a mount
point for the ntfs partition. Your command should look something like
that:
# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

If you use a standard debian kernel, this should be enough.

hth,
joerg

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