Reading from a NTFS partition

[Jomboni]

I've heard 3 different stories about setting up NTFS partitions in Linux:

-it's not possible
-you can read but not write to them
-you can read and write to them

I don't believe the first one is true, however, when I try to mount my NTFS partition, it says "the kernel doesn't support reading from NTFS partitions" or something to that effect. Any ideas? I'm in Redhad 7.1 if it makes a difference.

[X_console]

You can enable it in the kernel, although I'm pretty sure you can only read from it and not write to it. If you have the kernel source handy, you can check it out there.

[Syngin]

Also, theres a section for mounting NTFS partitions in Linux COnf under File systems.

[Hena]

Afaik (have't tried though) you can read without problems from ntfs. also you can write to ntfs with problems. Meaning that if you write, use scandisk when booting into windows and be prepared to lose some data. Try this sourceforge page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs) for more info.