Mount an ntfs filesystem

[Darryl L. Pierce]

Chris Norman wrote:

> Hi people who read my last post (about disk recovery) will be going 
> “hasn’t he learned?”:D.
>
> I need to mount a friend’s ntfs drive.
>
> When I used the command mount –t ntfs /dev/hda2 /media/ntfs it said 
> “unrecognized file system NTFS”, which I took to be “you’re typing 
> rubbish”. But when I just did mount /dev/hda2 /media/ntfs, it came out 
> with the same thing.
>
> Do I need any libraries to make it work with NTFS?
>
No. Your kernel needs to have the appropriate kernel modules available 
for handling NTFS.

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