Mounting NTFS problem

HiOctane21 · 02-13-2004, 06:48 PM

Hi,
I installed the ntfs kernel but when i issue those following commands: mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/winxp
i get:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
or too many mounted file systems
Can someone guide through doing it right?

Thank you

brassfish · 02-13-2004, 08:41 PM

What distro are you using? What is the output of 'cat /proc/filesystems'? Make sure /mnt/winxp exists, and if it doesn't mkdir it. And don't forget to read the man pages of mount.

HiOctane21 · 02-17-2004, 01:05 PM

Hi,
What is distro? how can I know where to find out what distro am i using? \

Thanks

feiticeir0 · 02-17-2004, 01:21 PM

to find what distro are u using, one way is in boot of O.S. a welcome message should appear and u can see what distro u're using. another way, is, in shell, do: cat /proc/version and u'll be able to see (somewhere in the output) your distro. maybe, u dont have the NTFS support module, or your distro dont support it !!

HiOctane21 · 02-17-2004, 01:28 PM

Here is my filesystems output:
Thank you

nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev sockfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev shm
nodev pipefs
ext2
nodev ramfs
iso9660
nodev devpts
ext3
nodev usbdevfs
nodev usbfs
nodev autofs
ntfs
vfat

HiOctane21 · 02-17-2004, 01:35 PM

Hi my distro or distrinution is RedHat 9

comp12345 · 02-17-2004, 05:09 PM

try doing "insmod ntfs" or "modprobe ntfs" before trying to mount. The kernel was probably not compiled for built-in NTFS support and you may need to load the module first.

HiOctane21 · 02-18-2004, 02:22 PM

THANK YOU SO MUCH... the hard drive end up being hda5 thats why I wasnt able to to it at first but I think the insmod and modprobe commands help out also.

Good stuff...