On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Amey Abhyankar <vega_yaa at hotmail.com> 
wrote:
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>> To mount  a partition  you need  to specify  filetype quite
>> specifically  on  the command  line.  On  my box,  this  is
>> precisely what I do:
>>
>> 1) Windows XP on NTFS partition:
>> # /sbin/mount -F ntfs /dev/dsk/c5d0p1 /mnt/windows
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> Thanks for quick  reply. I tried 1st command  which you used
> to mount  ntfs windows drives  just now. I am  still getting
> same  error.  I checked  under  /etc/mnttab  & 1  previously
> mounted windows drive  its showing. Remaining 2  drives I am
> not able to mount. Mysterious!
>
> Do I need to use ntfs3g command?
> Remaining 2 drives are extended partitions and NTFS FS.
>
> Any hints?
>

I am not sure of belenix,  since I am using OpenSolaris. It is
possible  that  two  packages  from the  Belenix  project  may
already be included. These are prtpart and prtmisc. Just check
with:

$ ls /usr/bin/ntfs*
$ ls /usr/sbin/ntfs*

If you have ntfsinfo installed, run  it to see if the extended
NTFS partitions are visible.

I had to install them manually for opensolaris.

Check Pradhap's blog out here:
http://blogs.sun.com/pradhap/entry/mount_ntfs_ext2_ext3_in

I had some issues in  compiling prtmisc, which i resolved from
this thread:
http://forums.opensolaris.com/thread.jspa?threadID=513

My feeling  is, you have  the above NTFS  utilities installed,
but you  are not getting  the exact partition to  access. Just
check these out with prtpart and  retry a mount of the correct
device/ partition.

Bish

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