Mounting ntfs as read/write with captive

[SpOoNFisH]

I installed captive (http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/) from the rpm on the site, and it seemed to install, and i found three new folders in the mnt directrory (captive-main, captive-133ch, captive-chunkatron (so it is recognising the ntfs partition labels)) for each ntfs hard drive i have, in addition to the read only ones that mandrake put there (win_c, win_c2, win_c3). The problem is that the captive ones appear to be empty, but stuff is still displaying and working in the original mandrake read only mount points, so it hasn't gone and deleted all my stuff thankfully.

I am running mandrake linux 10.0 (powerpack) on a 2.8ghz p4, 1gb ram, geforce fx 5700 256, MSI Neo2 with Intel 865PE chipset. The first two ntfs hdd's are IDE, and the third is SATA (onboard).

I was a bit unsure when i installed the rpm cos it said i386, and my computer is i686 architechture, i don't really know if that matters, and would like to know :)

[bwkaz]

i386 is just fine. It means it can run on 386 class machines and also everything newer (since newer processors stay backward compatible).

I would guess that your problem is because those partitions are not actually mounted in the /mnt/captive-whatever directories. The directories must exist for the mount to succeed (mount will not create directories for you), but just because they're there doesn't mean anything's mounted on them.

But, I don't know how Captive works specifically, either. Is it a kernel module? Maybe you need to umount the partitions from their current mount point?

Maybe there are directions somewhere in the Captive documentation that would help? (hint hint ;))