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11-04-2003, 10:39 AM

with all the redhat news today i still enjoy using it because of the professional and stable preformance

i have a laptop with a 20 gig hard drive. i put win2k on 14 gigs of it and redhat 9. when i used mandrake 9.1/9.2 it would automatically mount the window drives.

i tried to do

mount -t /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

it says NTFS is not support

i was reading around and there is a module that i have to install?

Scott Tiger · 11-04-2003, 10:43 AM

Here you go:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html

Let me know if you're still having problems.

11-04-2003, 10:45 AM

It's not advised.

There was another thread around here asking about it as well. I don't think it's a fault of *nix though, blame M$.

Scott Tiger · 11-04-2003, 10:50 AM

To my knowledge there's not problem with Mounting an NFTS partition with read-only support. It the ability to write to NTFS partitions that gets you into trouble.

I've heard rumblings in other forums over why you wouldn't want to have NFTS reading or writing capability in the kernel but have never seen any proof to support it.

11-04-2003, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Scott Tiger
but have never seen any proof to support it.

Nobody is brave enough to try it.

11-04-2003, 10:53 AM

thanks scott and evil, i dont want to write to it. just be able to access some pictures and mp3's.

thanks

Jason

Scott Tiger · 11-04-2003, 10:56 AM

No, that's not what I meant ER. I've seen posts in other forums that RH left NTFS reading capabilty out of their stock kernel because that module caused system instability. Since legal reasons were the most likely reason for RH leaving that out of the stock kernel I've pretty much ignored that (esp since I've used NTFS reading capability in my kernels and have never had any problems).

I thought that is what you were referring to in your first post.

11-04-2003, 11:04 AM

It always comes down to $$$.

What's going to happen when Longhorn comes out and WinFS, I wouldn't be surprised if it's not able to be read by any other OS but a version of Windows. And then to write to it, you'll HAVE TO HAVE Windows XP or later.

I can't believe, all this fuss just so GZ3 can look at pr0n on either Windows or Linux . . .