Mounting NTFS file system.

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 16.02.2004 schrieb Andy Wallace um 09:24:

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> > The Fedora kernel does not support NTFS out of the box for legal
> > reasons.  You can find a kernel module at
> > http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net
> 
> Am I imagining things here? I was able to mount NTFS on Fedora until
> upgrading the kernel to 2.4.22-1.2140 or maybe 2149, not sure.
> 
> Everyone's talking as if it was never supported, but I can assure you it
> was. I didn't see any announcements about dropping NTFS support, but
> until a few weeks ago I was definitely able to mount my XP NTFS
> partition read-only with a standard Fedora kernel.
> 
> Andy

No! NTFS support was in no official Fedora Core 1 kernel activated.

You may had installed the kernel module package from the sourceforge
project.

Alexander


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