On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:08, Thane Andersen wrote: > I'm setting up my desktop to dual boot windows and Linux and I wont to > have a common partition for storing one set of data. I'm using RedHat 9 > with kernel 2.4.20-8 and when I try to mount the partition in terminal, > I get a message saying that the kernel doesn't support ntfs. "man > mount" indicates that ntfs can be mounted. Is there a way to easily > work around this? Or is there a recommended kernel I should swithc to? > How can I do this mount?
The definitive source for whether your kernel can mount an ntfs filesystem would be /proc/filesystems. Do 'cat /proc/filesystems' and look for a line with ntfs. If it's not there, you probably need to load the module for it. I believe the RH 9 default kernel supports ntfs so a simple 'modprobe ntfs' will do it. Be aware that write support for ntfs under Linux is risky at best. If you want to share data back and forth between a dual boot, you probably want to create a FAT partition which both can easily modify. Corey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
