Hi All,

This question probably have an answer, but I couldn't find anything for now.
I have Dell Optiplex-GX280 with Slackware 10.2 installed. I am trying to mount SimpleDrive USB2.0 250GB hard drive with single NTFS partition. I get no error when I do "mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd/", but the drive is mounted with bad fs type (I think). When I do "mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd/", I get:
"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
".

Please advice, any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks

Not a slacker so not sure if NTFS is built in Slackware. To check to see if using the ntfs from the kernel type.
ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/

See if ntfs is listed. If not it maybe compiled in check this.
cat /proc/filesystems

If still no luck the it maybe captive-ntfs. Not sure how to check for that.

It may not be part of slackware as a default do to the inheriert issue that NTFS write is not perfect. It can trash the drive in millseconds without notice. Reading the partition in read-only mode is fine. Just mounting as read-write can be an issue.

You might try the search here for option like ' slackware ntfs '. Also check the slackware site and check the faq. Also search on google as well.

Brian1

you should be able to read NTFS partitions after a slackware install without any changes.
is your device file the correct one? try searching dmesg output for soemthing like '/dev/sd'
double check your partition and filesystem with 'cfdisk /dev/sda' or something similar

Is your USB drive being recognized? What is the output from
Note that's a lowercase "L".