On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:24:34 -0600, Brian Connolly wrote: > I am writing to publicly and broadly thank Richard Russon of the NTFS > Project (see http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net). > > First, for those who duel boot and are looking for a tool to read the > files in the NTFS partition, this fits the bill and is easy to install. > But what I've been most impressed with is how Rich and his colleagues > quickly package up rpms for Fedora's latest kernels. It's a labor of > love and greatly appreciated. Note that you can rebuild the ntfs module without rebuilding the whole kernel, using a spec file, a build script and the kernel-source.rpm. For those in a hurry to upgrade to new kernel.rpms, who need immediate access to ntfs partitions, this is a great solution. You need the following files: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/kernel-ntfs.spec http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/build /path/to/kernel-source-`uname -r`.i386.rpm Copy all 3 files to the current directory, then type: ./build kernel-ntfs.spec \ kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl.i386.rpm \ `uname -p` The build process took 2m51s on my ageing P3/1Ghz system. The rpm is built in a subdirectory of the working dir: rpm -ivh kernel-ntfs-`uname -r`/kernel-ntfs-`uname -r`.`uname -p`.rpm I'd also like to add my vote of thanks to Richard and all the NTFS project contributers. - K.
