FC3 and NTFS
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Thu Feb 3 23:10:49 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 15:24 -0400, Loren Lockwood wrote:
> Hi all. I'm very new at Linux. Have tried a couple of distros and like
> FC3 best so far. Some problems exist, though. I have dual boot with
> Win2K using NTFS. FC3 can't see that partition. Bumming around on the
> net I found out that seeing NTFS is an option which is turned off by
> default in the kernel of this distro. To turn it on, they say I have to
> recompile the kernel. That seems scary to me, but I found a site with
> very extensive instructions and decided to try it. But first I need the
> kernel source code. Where do I find that? I poked around in Red Hat's
> site, also Fedora's, but didn't find anything.
>
> Also, does this mean that every time a new kernel is issued I'll have to
> go through the same procedure? Isn't there some way to get this option
> turned on by default?
>
You do not need to compile. A module is available at
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/
install it and you will be on the way.
NOTE: NTFS support is read-only in Linux. If you want to share files
between the 2 OSes then you want to create a vfat partition and use that
for the shared data since both OSes can read/write to a Win98
filesystem.
> Your help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> BTW, I have read through a couple hundred emails from this list and not
> found any other references to this problem. Can it be that nobody else
> needs NTFS access from FC3? Is that why it's turned off by default? I
> still need W2K for certain jobs, although I hope that the number of such
> jobs will approach zero as time goes by.
>
> Thanks. -Loren
>
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