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mount NTFS
Name: falcon_x Date: March 9, 2003 at 11:22:45 Pacific OS: Windows XP SP1, Mandrake CPU/Ram: Athlon 1700+, 1.614GHz (O
Comment:
How do I mount NTFS in Mandrake 8.2? I'm pretty new with linux. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Name: Messiah Date: March 9, 2003 at 11:36:36 Pacific
Reply:
I think you should be able to simply mount it using the shell command "mount" e.g. "mount /dev/hdd1" the only downside is that you can't write on the NTFS drive in Mandrake 8.2 if I remember correct.
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Response Number 2
Name: Jarrett Date: March 9, 2003 at 13:43:57 Pacific
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yes, mount -t ntfs /dev/hd* /mnt/* star being the hard drive letter/number and mount point. There is a way to turn on ntfs write support in the kernel, but don't do it, because 9 times out of 10 it will corrupt data on that partition.
-jarrett
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Response Number 3
Name: hawkeye_sde Date: April 4, 2003 at 08:24:07 Pacific
Summary: I'm not sure how literal you are by "the first step of doing this" but here's the basics.... Open a terminal window, su to root, and type `mount <ntfs partition> <mount point>`. If that doesn't ...
Summary: Hi: I am a linux newbie. I installed red hat linux 7.2, tried to mount ntfs partition to linux in: mount -t ntfs /dev/hada1 /mnt/windows after i mdir /mnt/windows, but not worked. The error meaasg...
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