NTFS filesystem...

Kevin H. Hobbs kevin.hobbs.1 at ohiou.edu
Mon Nov 1 14:56:34 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 09:19, John Burton wrote:
> Greetings once again...
> 
> Before I subscribed to this list, I sent a message which is currently 
> being held by the moderators (no problem). Here is my porblem....
> 
> I have a dual boot laptop, Windows XP on the first partition (/dev/hda1) 
> and FC3-RC1 (updated via yum on 10/28 to kernel 2.6.9-1.643). /dev/hda1 
> is formatted NTFS. Other versions of Linux including FC2 have allowed me 
> access to NTFS filesystems. But now I get
> 
> > [root at traveler john]# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/C
> > mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel
> 
> Which is not what I need. Unfortunately since there isn't a 
> kernel-source rpm available, I can't easily compile a ntfs module.  
> Being able to read the ntfs partition is critical, being able to write 
> to it isn't. Since the actual release of FC3 is near, are there any 
> plans to include ntfs support in the released version?
> 
> John
> 
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If you end up trying to build the module that is part of the kernel you
might want to tale a look at 

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130754

http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/

They suggest a kernel build process from the kernel-XXX.src.rpm
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