Mounting a ntfs drive?

mpooley · 12-02-2002, 04:57 PM

Hi
when i try to mount an ntfs drive i get an error
"fs type ntfs not supported by Kernel "

I have suse linux 8.1 if that makes any difference.

So can anyone tell me what i have to do now please?

Pongo · 12-02-2002, 05:12 PM

cat /proc/filesystems

i type this in, in the ROOT directory - it will display a load of info...if NTFS is shown...NTFS is supported and it's the command is wrong........i use RH 8.0; but maybe, to some extent this link will be of use..but unfortunately it is RedHat..never used SUSE...
Does SUSE support NTFS as a default?

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html

Aussie · 12-02-2002, 11:36 PM

Try doing "modprobe ntfs" first.

mpooley · 12-03-2002, 05:21 AM

Right modprobe ntfs came back with nothing no errors just nothing!
cat proc/filesystems did bring up a list which DID include ntfs !

so that means the kernell does support ntfs ?

ah! thankyou it was my mount command that was wrong!

the error message was strange though wasnt it?

thanks again

Aussie · 12-03-2002, 05:46 AM

I think you'll find that the problem was the ntfs module wasn't loaded, modprobe only reports back when something goes wrong ( including an error message if a module is already loaded), to verify that this is the case unmount your ntfs partition unload the ntfs module with "rmmod ntfs" and try to mount it again.

zLinuxz · 12-04-2002, 06:50 PM

NTFS doesn't even come pre-loaded as a module in the kernel, you need to either load it as a module, or just make it a built in option(my favorite)

you need to reconfigure your kernel, and recompile it. Until then, you will be able to mount your NTFS partition.

Aussie · 12-04-2002, 07:05 PM

Thats just redhat who leave out support for ntfs (even as a module) almost all of the other distro's include it as a module.

zLinuxz · 12-06-2002, 07:55 PM

it's not about the distro. Download the kernel from kernel.org, like I always do. I never use distro kernels, they always have problems with my hardware.

The fresh kernel from kernel.org doesn't come with NTFS loaded as a module.
And I know because I just installed it on a computer with winXP in it and it had the NTFS partition. Downloaded the newest kernel, looked and had to click on NTFS...it wasn't enabled at all by default.

gonus · 12-07-2002, 01:02 PM

Suse 8.1 can read/Write to it with np. Just though some may liek to know.

zLinuxz · 12-07-2002, 01:19 PM

yeah..but that's because of the tweaked kernel of that distro. The vanilla kernel, doesn't come with it as default.

varzosu · 12-10-2002, 03:56 PM

read only

zLinuxz · 12-10-2002, 09:35 PM

MasterC · 12-11-2002, 12:32 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by gonus
Suse 8.1 can read/Write to it with np. Just though some may liek to know.

To NTFS? I would think this to be a bad move...

Cool