Hi fellows,
i´ve compiled kernel 2.6.2 on my Red Hat 9.0 and now i can´t mount ntfs filesystems anymore. It says that ntfs filesystem is not supported by the kernel. But i´ve enabled ntfs filesystem and ntfs write on kernel options before compilation !
Did i miss something ?

Another thing... i got iptables error messages too . Should i get the last iptables ?

thanks,
Eduardo

about ntfs. Did you compile ntfs suport as a module? If so, do
modprobe ntfs
(as root) and see if this helps. I had to do this - and then decided to compile it into the kernel so I don't have to bother about loading the module.

Well quatsch, i´ve inserted the ntfs "built in" just like you.
But nevertheless it gives me the unrecognized fs message !
Any other tip ?

is it just unrecognized fs, or something like
unreconized fs, option, or too many mounted file systems

I got this and the problem was the code page. I had to load the appropriate nls module (the native langauge support thing). I think for me it was nls-utf8.

the message is "fs type ntfs not supported by kernel".
Maybe i need this "native langauge support" module like you.
i will run for this.
thanks

Hey quatsch,
The nls-utf8 module solved the problem partially. I can mount ntfs now, at the command line. But the lines in fstab aren´t working yet.
the boot message now is "too many mounted file systems". I seems that you know how to solve this... am i right ?

not really. it was just trial and error for me. I just compiled the nls-utf8 thing into the kernel as well and things worked.

If you don't want to recompile, I guess you'll have to load the module fairly early in the boot process. The place to do it is probably somewhere in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. It's a script and you'll see that it mounts the filesystems mentioned in fstab somewhere. Insert the modprobe line somewhere before that. Make a backup of rc.init before and make sure that you have a way of rescuing the system, though, that is have something like Knoppix ready and make sure Knoppix works on your system (it boots and you can mount the harddrive read/write).

Let´s see what i can do.
thanks again !