Mounting NTFS 5 partition

[OliverW]

Short question...
Can I mount my Win2000 partitions in Linux?
If yes, how?, if no... too bad.

Thanks,

Olli

[Jeepsta]

Sure can....got mine mounted right now. Read the NHF on mounting partitions that arent linux and it should work.

Zach

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[flar]

HPFS is the partition format of win2k. just simply compile ur kernel ro support such. then after. load the module or built the module into the kernel. then mount it. 'man mount' hope this helps.

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[PLBlaze]

While NTFS v3 has read/write is supported i'd be carefull writing to the volumes.NTFS v5 that coms with win2k is somewhat more dangerous read should be fine but write is not recommended it may destroy your volume.When you boot linux you get this:

NTFS version 000607
Warning! NTFS volume version is Win2k+: Mounting read-only

It should tell you enough not to try to write to it but if you want to go ahead and do so.

[Jeepsta]

Maybe I am special or something but I never had to recompile my kernel to get my Win2k drive to mount. I was using kernel 2.2.17 if that make a difference.

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[Muzzafarath]

Originally posted by flar:
HPFS is the partition format of win2k. just simply compile ur kernel ro support such. then after. load the module or built the module into the kernel. then mount it. 'man mount' hope this helps.

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HPFS, High Performance File System, is the fs of OS/2. Win2k uses NTFS(5?). Where did you get the idea that Win2k uses it?

[This message has been edited by Muzzafarath (edited 15 January 2001).]

[wtsamatta]

I think that linux sees nt partitions as hpfs. I'm pretty surt that dos does too. =/

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[OliverW]

Okay got it.. so don't write on NTFS/HPFS partitions.. sounds fair enough.(actually in DOS it does shows these as (OS/2) HPFS, for example in fdisk, so you are right there wtsamatta)

I'll give it a try.

Thanks folks,

Olli

[spickus]

I mount mine ntfs.