LINUX SUPPORT OF NTFS

[kel]

Does anyone know if Linux will recognize NTFS?

Would I be able to mount it and use it in other words?

[ph34r]

Read only, since write is still very experimental (and anything defined as very experimental in Linux is *very* experimental).

Also, I'm not sure what changes the NTFS in Win2k have made, and if the NTFS support in Linux has caught up. You may want to read the docs in the kernel release notes relating to it....

[jask]

how do I do this in red hat 7.1?

[jbstew32]

yeah you can definietly read NTFS patitions in linux, but not write...i think that it writting to them is beyond experimental, i think it is "(DANGEROUS)".

[godot]

just type this
modprobe ntfs

should allow you to mount your ntfs partition
read only, I really fudged up a win2000 system last year with the *EXPERIMENTAL* writing module

[jask]

"modprobe ntfs" gives me an error that it could not determine the kernel version that the ntfs module was compiled for.

How can I fix this?

[wing]

You can recompile the kernel to make it support NTFS file system. Read only, of course.

[jask]

I tried recompiling the entire kernel, but I don't know what options to choose so that the new kernel is the same as the default red hat 7.1 kernel + ntfs. I choose what I thought was correct and got several errors when I ran that kernel.

[wing]

And what happened really? Can you read your NTFS partition now? Could you offer the information about the error?