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I am running Red Hat Linux 7.3 along with Windows XP Pro. I am wanting to mount windows (NTFS) to linux but it will not allow my to do so. Can someone give me directions on how to do this or where I may look. Thanks
Why don't you take a look at the MINI-HOWTO
for the kernel? It will walk you thru step
by step... You can download the latest
kernel, 2.4.18, at www.kernel.org. And
after you unzip and untar it, take a look at
the README file!Lawrence
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I have done what you sayed but there is no HOW-TO file anywhere. If you have one would you send it to me or post if here. Thanks.
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I know you are asking about accessing linux partitions from windows, but I figured this could help you when you are booted up in windows. http://ext2shell.linux-site.net/index.html
As for recompiling the kernel to allow access to ntfs partitions, I can't really help.
Sorry!
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Before you go and recompile your kernel, try to find out if your distrib doesn't provide you with a ready-to-use ntfs module (most distribs should).
As for howtos, the place to look for them is the linux documentation project at www.tldp.org
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just so u know, writing to ntfs from linux is still experimental and can cause data curruption. reading from it is fine though
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I have red hat 7.3 and they talk like it supports NTFS but when I do a mount is gives me an error say that NTFS is not supported. Thanks for the Windows file though.
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We had this discussion before. Have a look:
http://computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/10934.html
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Thanks but now I am really confused. Do I recomplie or not. I have 7.3 not 7.2 and I am not sure of the changes beucase I am new to this. I loaded up the windwos reader and it works fine now if I could just get linux to read windows.
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From what I can find, it looks at though redhat does not compile the kernel with the NTFS option. They seem to do this because of the possibility of badly corrupting the windows partition if a write is attempted.
However, I'm not sure if this helps. But Mandrake seems to have the NTFS option compiled into their kernel. If you are not comfortable recompiling your stock kernel. It’s just an option.
Good Luck if you decide to recompile...I hear it's not that difficult, but I have not tried this one yet.
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