[Techtalk] NTFS mounting RHL7.2

[Beth Johnson]

On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 12:22, kansas_kennedy at phreaker.net wrote:

> I am using RedHat Linux 7.2 with Kernel 2.4.9 & ext3. But it seems like I 
> can't mount my NTFS

Hi,
NTFS support isn't turned on in the standard kernel, so you'll have to
compile a custom kernel.  You also need to know that writing to an NTFS
partition from Linux is currently a Bad Thing.  Not something you can
trust won't corrupt your data.  If you do need to write to this
partition, not just read, then you are probably better off converting
the partition to a vfat (win32).  This would solve both problems.

To compile a custom kernel, any good Linux book will have a section on
custom kernels.  Also check the Redhat site.  You'll need to have the
source package installed (check in /usr/src/--there should be a symlink
called linux and something like linux-2.4.9-21, which should match the
version number of your current kernel which you can get by running
"uname -r".  Go to that directory with the version number and you can
run "make xconfig" which is a graphical kernel configuration tool.  That
creates the parameters for the new kernel, which you then have to
compile, make modules for, and install.  It's not a do-it-in-5-minutes
kind of thing.  ;-)

Of course, I'm one to talk, since I'm having problems with my custom
kernel build at the moment...

H(ope)TH,
Beth
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