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Old 11-03-2003, 02:55 PM   #1
Uchiha sasuke
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how to see a NTFS partition ?


I have another data harddisk , with NTFS filesystem .
How can I make Linux see that harddisk ?
I tried
#mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hd (existed)
#mount /dev/hdb1
#mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hd
non of these work.
 
Old 11-03-2003, 02:58 PM   #2
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What do you get when you do:

df -a

It should show you where the NTFS partition is located. Then, if you have the NTFS module, you should be able to mount that NTFS partition after setting up /etc/fstab.
 
Old 11-03-2003, 02:59 PM   #3
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Well if it is ntfs you need to mount it as ntfs and not vfat. Take a look at:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/
 
  


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