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lilrabbit129
01-31-2002, 08:26 PM
I tried to use a HOWTO to let my drake 8.1 read NTFS partitions... according to the install everything should have worked...
the only thing is, the next step says for me to "mount" the partition...
only problem is...
what do i put in for "file system type"?
i tried:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdd3 /mnt/win_f
but that gave me a bad filesystem thing
...help?
Did you build NTFS into the kernel? As a module or static? If it's a module, did you load the 'ntfs' module? What 'bad filesystem thingy' are you seeing? Are you trying to mount it as root or a regular user?
lilrabbit129
01-31-2002, 09:22 PM
According to the docs,
"for linux 2.1+ this will build as a linux kernel module"
it also says that it placed the module into the module directory.
how would i load the module?
also all this was done as SU,
lilrabbit129
01-31-2002, 09:25 PM
also the error it gives me is
"
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd3 or too many mounted file systems (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some logical partition inside?)"
Psycho
01-31-2002, 09:53 PM
That's the 'standard' I can't mount something message...
As su try insmod ntfs
lilrabbit129
02-01-2002, 03:09 AM
good and bad news...
good news is when i took your advice, it said that a module by that name was already installed...
i tried just doing:
"mount /dev/hdd6 /mnt/win_f" without anything about file system and it mounted!
I was able to access the music on it through XMMS!
bad news:
When i tried to navigate into it through Konqueror/File Manager, it says that it can't be accessed...
any ideas? and also what kind of fstab entry would i need to enter for this?
thanks!
danrees
02-01-2002, 04:24 AM
NTFS has permissions just like ext2, so you can't browse it unless you tell Linux that users have permissions.
In /etc/fstab you should put "umask=022" in your line for NT/XP:
/dev/hdd3 /mnt/win_f ntfs auto,ro,user,umask=022 0 0
This should work :) - you might need to put "/sbin/modprobe ntfs" in one of your startup files (different depending on distro, but in SuSE it is /etc/init.d/boot.local for example)
lilrabbit129
02-01-2002, 04:27 PM
THANKS!
IT seems to work now.. THANKS EVERYONE!!!
-me