Mount NTFS partition

[Paul L. Allen]

Fedora List wrote:

> I'm trying to mount an NTFS partition.
> FC1 on hda and Winnie XP Pro (NTFS) on hdb.
> I've RPM'ed the correct kernel-ntfs rpm.
> cat /proc/filesystems reflects ntfs available.
> I've created /mnt/hdb1
> When trying to mount hdb1 error message:
> 
> ...not a valid block device
> 
> I've run almost all conceivable combinations and permutations of mount
> -auto etc
> 
> Is there anything I haven't done?

The error is that hdb1 is not a block device, not that the filesystem
is bad.  What do you see when you fdisk /dev/hdb?  What happens if
you say "dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/null count=1"?  Once you've verified
that the partition exists and you can read blocks from it, then you
can start tracking down trouble in the kernel's ntfs code.

Paul Allen

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