ntfs support

[Troy Carpenter]

Strange...I had an NTFS partition go corrupt just this weekend and
Windows (and even Norton Ghost for that matter) would not use the
partition to backup files.  So I popped the drive into my Fedora machine
and no joy.

It's not that code for NTFS is not there, it's that the kernel builders
are not even building it as a module.  When you reconfigure the kernel,
you will find the NTFS selections blank.  I had to rebuild the kernel to
get the NTFS module built.

I went ahead and installed my custom kernel and rebooted with it to get
the support.  I wasn't sure if I could use the newly built module with
the original kernel and didn't want to risk it.

Troy Carpenter
troy at carpenter.cx


-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:04:17 -0400
From: Ted Kaczmarek <fedora at linsolutions.com>
Subject: Re: ntfs support
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
	<fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
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On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 11:04 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 10:44, Anthony Richardella wrote:
> > Just wondering if there are any plans for adding support for 
> > mounting ntfs filesystems.
> > 
> > Anthony
> > 
> 
> The kernel supports it but Redhat disables it. It is easy to put it 
> back in by rebuilding the kernel. Install the kernel-source and follow

> the instructions in the README
> 
> specifically these lines   To configure and build the kernel use:
>    cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.N
>    make O=/home/name/build/kernel menuconfig
>    make O=/home/name/build/kernel
>    sudo make O=/home/name/build/kernel modules_install install
>

>    Please note: If the 'O=output/dir' option is used then it must be
>    used for all invocations of make.
> 
> when you run the make menuconfig you will get an option to include 
> ntfs support. If you are using grub it will install the custom kernel.

> Just reboot and you have ntfs support.
>

Why does it have to be compiled into the kernel?
Is it no longer loadable as a module?

Ted