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? > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! >http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > > 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.
Hi,
I found these drawbacks of captive during its occasional use:
- can't access large files (>1GB)
- very slow (about floppy speed)
- eats up the memory, for some reason it doesn't free up space occupied by the cache
- it's a pain to get the necessary M$ driver files
- I usually have to manually unmount captive-ntfs file systems in order for the last writes to take affect
(Some other observations can be found here: http://www.jankratochvil.net/pipermail/captive-list/ )
But captive is good for:
- editing/creating/deleting/renaming small files
- modifying/deleting files which are otherwise unaccessible from Windows (which were created by other versions/installations of Windows)
linux-ntfs is a complementer for captive:
- fast
- can access files of any size (but only for reading)
Cheers,
Botond
