NTFS filesystems

[Sorin Srbu]

Johan Booysen <> scribbled on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:27 PM:

I've used ntfs-3g about six months ago on a fedora6(?)-machine. I connected a
drive from WinXP using a ide-to-usb-adapter in order to recover some files.
Both writing and reading worked flawlessly.

HTH.

> Have a look at:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
> or
> http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
> 
> The first one works very well for me, but just using RHEL5 with an
> external USB drive.  And it's still read-only access...
> 
> I didn't have much luck with ntfs-3g, but that was some months ago.  I
> think that was supposed to allow write access too.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Scully
> Sent: 31 October 2007 17:21
> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
> Subject: NTFS filesystems
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> 	Does anyone know the status of things regarding mounting NTFS
> filesystems?  My RHEL4 installation squawks at this as an unsupported FS
> (plugging in an external USB drive).  I have been able to whack the
> factory partition and create a new ext3 filesystem on it, but I was
> hoping for interoperability, so I could recover files from a Windows PC
> if necessary.
> 
> 	My drive is a 750 GB model, and my kernel is 2.6.9.  I thought
> NTFS had been supported for some time.  Am I mistaken?  If I am missing
> some other pieces for the kernel, how do I get them?
> 
> Scully
> 
> 
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