[Techtalk] NTFS mounting RHL7.2

[Helen Rosseau]

"kansas_kennedy at phreaker.net" wrote:
> 
> Hello group:
> 
> I am using RedHat Linux 7.2 with Kernel 2.4.9 & ext3. But it seems like I
> can't mount my NTFS:
> 
> mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1.
> 
> Yes, as an initial research I have created a sub-directory (mkdir) named
> hda1 under /mnt but with no luck. Unfortunately, NTFS is not even in my
> /proc/filesystem. I have also included my /proc/filesystem at the last of
> this mail if you can help me.
> 
> Now, every time I want to mount NTFS is says: fs type ntfs not supported by
> the kernel.
> 
> What should I do now? And if I need to enable ntfs support in the kernel
> then how do I do it?
> 
> My /proc/filesystem looks like this:
> 
> nodev           proc
> nodev           sockfs
> nodev           tmpfs
> nodev           shm
> nodev           pipefs
>                 ext2
>                 iso9660
> nodev   devpts
> nodev           usbdevfs
>                 ext3
> 



/dev/hdb5       /windows/D      ntfs   
defaults,user,noexec,gid=100,uid=604,umask=027 0 2


This is all one line in my fstab file.  I created the directory
/windows/D      /dev/hdb5 refers to my partion on my hard drive.  I am
using ext2 if it makes any difference on SuSE 7.3

Helen