Mount ntfs

Sturla Holm Hansen sturlahh at online.no
Wed Dec 31 17:18:15 UTC 2003


AFAIK you have to have NTFS-support compiled into the kernel, IOW you
have to compile a new kernel with the support for NTFS or compile the
module for it and insmod it in your running kernel...

Sturla

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 16:54, Randall Crunk wrote:
> Andy Hargreaves wrote:
> > To return to the original question...
> > 
> > 1. Create a directory (using mkdir) in /lib/modules/2.xxxxx.nptl/kernel/fs
> > called ntfs.
> > 
> > 2. Put the file (link at the bottom of this message) into the newly created
> > ntfs directory.  Rename the file to ntfs.o
> > 
> > 3.  Permissions on the ntfs.o file should be 644 (i.e. use chmod 644 ntfs.o)
> > 
> > 4.  Now, the line in fstab needs to look similar this:
> > 
> >     /dev/hda1		/mnt/ntfs		auto		ro,user,umask=000    0 0
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > This is exactly what I have done, and it works fine.
> > 
> > This is the link to the file:
> > 
> > http://www.ajh-web.com/l/ntfs.o.txt
> > 
> > Andy
> > 
> 
> Thanks Andy but is isn't working for me. I am getting the same error "fs 
> type ntfs not supported by kernel"  I have kernel 2.4.22-1.2135 is that
> makes any difference.
> 
> Randall
> 
> 
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