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Subject: Re: Mounting NTFS on 6.2 From: "Raymond H. Kraft" <ray@c862735-a.sttln1.wa.home.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 21:40:14 -0700 jerbra@hartson-kennedy.com said: > I am a newbie and I am trying to mount a local NTFS partition. I am > getting and error saying that NTFS is not supported with this > kernel...this is a stock 6.2 install..did I leave out a package?? I > even tried setting up the mount in gnome and NTFS was not a choice of > file systems. I looked all over redhats sight and didn't find > anything that was helpful...Thanks for any help. The stock redhat 6.2 kernels do not include an ntfs module (kind of surprising). You'll need to build the module yourself from kernel sources. === Subject: Re: Mounting NTFS on 6.2 From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 09:32:36 +0200 (CEST) On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jeremy Bradley wrote: > I am a newbie and I am trying to mount a local NTFS partition. I am getting > and error saying that NTFS is not supported with this kernel... We aren't shipping the NTFS kernel module because it isn't stable enough. If you use it with read-write support, chances are it will destroy your NTFS partition, if you use it read-only, you may run into memory leaks. If you need to use it, recompile the kernel. === Subject: Re: Mounting NTFS on 6.2 From: "Raymond H. Kraft" <ray@c862735-a.sttln1.wa.home.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 06:35:25 -0700 Craig.S.Williams@BakerNet.com said: > Is this really correct? I have a similar problem, but see NTFS is > listed as a valid filesystem in the manpage, just like MSDOS. I don't > have to recompile to mount a floppy... Yes, it's really correct. Take a look in /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/fs an look for something called ntfs.o. You won't find it there unless you build your own (or possibly use someone else's kernel like Mandrake). As for msdos, you should see that you already have fat.o, msdos.o, and vfat.o in your modules directory --- so they're not an issue. ===