mounting a ntfs part.

[torac]

Hey guys,
Had a quick question. I searched for it already but nothing came up :-\. Anyways i have RH Fedora and im trying to mount a partition i have on my comupter (dual boot with win on a ntfs drive). If i can only mount it as read only thats fine, but if someone could give me directions i would appreciate it. Thanks so much for your help guys

-Torac

[Dbest]

Hey torac here you go, a great PET written by pbharris http://linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/pet/p...=Display&id=48
As for native NTFS support on Fedora I don''t tthink it's compiled into the kernel. Anyway here's a link to the Linux NTFS project page:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/

[torac]

lol...awesome i tried it and it worked! Thanks for the help i really appreciate it..

-Torac

[torac]

hey just a quick thought...Can you mount the linux file system on windows???

[nukes]

There are some programs to let you access them, but they don't have the same sort of integration you get with Linux accessing windows partitions.
This will give you limited access to ext2:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
This will give you better access to ext2/3.
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/pmdetails.cfm
No simple 'mount' command as far as I can gather, and no reiserfs/XFS support.

[Dbest]

Nope you can't do that the only filesystem that both Windows and Linux can Read/Write to the safe and easy way is FAT 32. So if you want to share a HD partition among your 2 OS then FAT 32 is the way to go.

It seems you can I really didn't know that nukes , thanks for the info.

[nukes]

In regard to NTFS on Linux, I wouldn't recommend it. It used to work, but they scrapped all the code and decided to start again, as you needed to use a few userland tools and it wasn't very user-friendly.
AFAIK the one in the kernel is still pretty broken.
Dbest: You are actually right, if you want a partition to share between Linux and windows - say for storing your documents etc, use FAT32. However, while in Windows NTFS is much better, and read access is ok if you're dual booting, but a FAT32 partition makes things much easier.

[torac]

yeah but heres the thing...i have used up all my partitions (4). You are only allowed to have 4 partitions on a hard drive. And i am using NTFS for my windows system. So if i want to use a fat32 format i would have to go out and buy another hard drive which i doubt i will be doing becuase my primary hard drive is 100gb. Anyone have a different setup where this could be done?

-Torac

[nukes]

Not easily if you've already used all 4 partitions.
What's the layout of them, and how much space is used/free on them?
If you could get to a point where you had a windows primary+extended, and a Linux primary+extended, you should be ok. but it depends on how much space is availiable.

[griobhta]

How come you have used up all your 4 partitions? do you not you an extended partition? I cant see anyway that you would need 4 primary partitions. Most decent os's can be installed on an extended partition even it the boot loader needs to be on a primary partition.

g