Support for NFTS Partitions?

elamigo2004 · 04-07-2004, 07:44 PM

I have Phlak, and I was wondering if there was a program that allowed you to browse NFTS partitions.

Hidden_Hunter · 04-07-2004, 08:34 PM

anything with a remotely recent kernal should be able to browse ntfs (2.6 can write to it) not sure if your distro automatically mounts it but if it does check the /mnt/ directory for a directory like /windows or similar.

tarballedtux · 04-07-2004, 09:09 PM

Hidden_hunter is correct, any recent kernel will at least be able read an NTFS partition. The problem is with the writing. As far as I knew writing was still considered dangerous, and unstable. If it has been fixed with 2.6.x then good. That's a useful feature. Most likely NTFS support has been included by default with your kernel, as a module probably. To read the partition in questions simple mount it as such: mount /dev/<deviceANDpartion>

--tarballedtux

JROCK1980 · 04-07-2004, 09:57 PM

well with 2.6.2 you can read but it is highly recommended to not use it. By default 2.6.2 does not have that enable, you have to do that. Once that has happen you have to edit your fstab to read the partition on boot or just mount it.

elamigo2004 · 04-07-2004, 10:04 PM

But when I open it, nothing's there. But, I can open a FAT partition (that doesn't have an OS on it).

Redge · 09-24-2005, 02:42 PM

Same here. All my files are on other partitions in NFTS format, and when I open /mnt, it's empty. (Using Fedora Core 4)