cant mount ntfs on 2.4.24

weeds84 · 02-24-2004, 10:41 AM

i'm using debian sarge with kernel 2.4.24 which i thought was supposed to include read-only ntfs support but when i try:

mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hda1 /winxp

it says:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

am i mistaken that this should work?

frieza · 02-24-2004, 10:44 AM

hmm, do this:
cat /proc/filesystems
and post what it says

weeds84 · 02-24-2004, 02:55 PM

here are the results:

nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev sockfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev shm
nodev pipefs
ext2
cramfs
nodev ramfs
nodev devfs
nodev devpts
ext3
nodev usbdevfs
nodev usbfs
ntfs

frieza · 02-24-2004, 03:07 PM

hmm, well than perhaps you aren't pointing at the correct partition? look at
fidsk -l and see which are the non linux partitions, or perhaps you don't need the -o ro as ntfs is mounted read only by default....

weeds84 · 02-24-2004, 03:47 PM

any idea why fdisk -l doesn't show any info for me at all? it doesn't give an error, it just doesn't display anything.

frieza · 02-24-2004, 06:30 PM

??? what is the error message?

weeds84 · 02-24-2004, 06:43 PM

no, there is no error message, there's nothing.

frieza · 02-24-2004, 06:50 PM

hmm try fdisk /dev/hda