accessing music files on windows NTFS hard drive
EDIT: Using FC5!
Is it possible to somehow read my ntfs hard drive? because i didnt think that linux could read ntfs, only fat32. basically i have a 3 partitions: windows linux backup (made in windows) backup has all my music on it aswell, and i would like to access from my linux aswell. i thought of one possible way, that was to reduce the size of the windows partition then make a 4th partition as fat32, then transfer accross all of the stuff, then format the ntfs backup partition, and merge that with the windows partition, leaving me the exact same, but a fat32 partition 'backup' instead of ntfs. but i was wondering, is there an easier way? (also is it true that you can't get shockwave for linux!?) |
You should be able to mount and read from the NTFS partition. Writing isn't so well supported and comes with a health warning for most distros although that may be changing with recent kernel releases?
Use fdisk -l hd? to find where your windows partition is then use the mount command or alter your /etc/fstab file to include the entry.. |
when i do fdisk -l it says
'bash: fdisk: command not found' um? |
i had to do su - not just su.
it came out with fdisk: invalid option -- 1 Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s) fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks fdisk -v Give fdisk version Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7 -u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units -b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors now what? |
oops "l" not "1"
now i got: Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 8273 66452841 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdb2 10186 14592 35399196 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdb3 8274 8286 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb4 8287 10185 15253717+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb5 8287 10185 15253686 8e Linux LVM Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/dm-0: 14.2 GB, 14227079168 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 1342 MB, 1342177280 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 163 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table |
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fdisk -l As far as i know FC still doesn't support NTFS (read or write) out of the box, and so needs extra modules. http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ - has binaries for FC. Just follow the instructions, you will then need to mount the drive as usual |
FC5 doesn't have native ntfs support. So do what I tell you and It should work. Cause if you create another FAT32 Partition as a workaround you'll suddenly figure out that the max. filesize is 2GB.
1st create a directory within mnt using mkdir mkdir /mnt/win (for example) 2nd check your kernel version with uname -rm 3rd go on this Link and download the RPM matching to your kernel version 4rd issue the command as ROOT with "su -" it includes the PATH Variables... fdisk -l (l like language) It will show you the partitions with NTFS Filesystems after you've done the steps 1-4 5th Install the rpm with (below it's just an example for my kernel) rpm -ivh kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5-2.1.27-0.rr.10.5.i586.rpm 6. mount the partition in your Linux tree mount -t ntfs /dev/sda3 /mnt/win (You'll need to asign probably another device then sda3 depends on the output of fdisk -l ) 7. check with mount (enter) if it was mounted correct 8. If you want include it to your /etc/fstab so that you don't have to do the step 6 everytime. |
@ethics :-)
lol I typed my fingers bloody and you've been faster |
You typed more, i find the less i type, the less i look like an igit with spelling mistakes (carefully spell checking this post thought);)
Just a note though, the max single file size for FAT32 is 4GB, i would imagine FAT16 is 2GB |
upps... @ethics
2GB FAT and 4GB FAT32... --- but do you think we could help him? |
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