Can NTFS r/w support be built into the initrd?

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:09 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
>> I'm using the livecd-iso-to-disk to make a bootable USB thumb drive
>> for a laptop where I don't want to alter the drive partitioning. I've
>> got a 1GB overlay on it but trying to update F9 from the iso to
>> current pretty much max's it out. I have created a 4GB overlay file on
>> the HD but it is a NTFS partition.
>>
>> I updated the syslinux.cfg to get it to find the overlay file on the
>> HD and it attempted it (I changed out the overlay= command to use the
>> HD label and UUID) but it complained that it didn't understand the
>> filesystem type. Since I can access the HD once I boot I assume I need
>> NTFS support in the initrd.
>
> Okay, I'm with you. Unfortunately, the Fedora initrd doesn't have any
> concept of fuse, or performing fuse mounts. It is not as simple as
> simply including the necessary files in the initrd, you'd need to be
> sure that the fuse kernel module, as well as the ntfs-3g bits (and
> probably the fuse userspace bits and anything they depend on) were
> there, yes, but you'd also have to add the mount commands into the
> initrd execution sequence.
>
> It's possible, but I'm not volunteering to hack it up... sorry.
>
> ~spot

I thought that might be the answer but wanted to at least ask. In that case
a somewhat related question...

Would it be pretty easy to get the modules (ricoh_mmc and dependencies)
required to use the ricoh internal SD card reader in the initrd? The other
thing i wanted to do was just put syslinux on the USB drive since it will
boot to that, but not the card reader, and then actually have the livecd
image on an SD card.

The end result I'm looking for is to be able to plug in the USB thumb drive
and boot, but after the initrd is done, be able to remove the USB drive so I
don't have it sticking out of the machine, while running the live image off
of the SD card.

It's just so darn easy to remove/break the usb drive off when moving around
with a laptop, not to mention I have a 13 month old that is attracted to the
blue LED light when it's being accessed.

Thanks,
Richard
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