Re: Accesing windows partitions

["Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems" <politby@xxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Ng wrote:

> Can I access a Windows NTFS partition? If I can't, how
> do I read files from my NTFS partition? Do I need to
> transfer all of them (2-3GB) to another FAT32 partition?
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NTFS support is not built into the FC2 stock kernel. You can use the 
RPMs from the URL below:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora2.html

to install a loadable module that will give you NTFS read access. You 
will then need to put an entry in your /etc/fstab file to make sure it 
gets mounted on startup. Here's an example from my fstab file for 
mounting my Windows XP root partition (/dev/hdc1):

/dev/hdc1               /mnt/windows/C          ntfs    
ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0

If you want write support for NTFS, take a look at

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

although I would shy away from writing to NTFS partitions - it's been 
known to be a bit flaky.

Good luck!

/POL
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