Fedora List wrote:
I'm trying to mount an NTFS partition. FC1 on hda and Winnie XP Pro (NTFS) on hdb. I've RPM'ed the correct kernel-ntfs rpm. cat /proc/filesystems reflects ntfs available. I've created /mnt/hdb1 When trying to mount hdb1 error message:
...not a valid block device
I've run almost all conceivable combinations and permutations of mount -auto etc
Is there anything I haven't done?
The error is that hdb1 is not a block device, not that the filesystem is bad. What do you see when you fdisk /dev/hdb? What happens if you say "dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/null count=1"? Once you've verified that the partition exists and you can read blocks from it, then you can start tracking down trouble in the kernel's ntfs code.
Paul Allen
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