mounting NTFS partition on linux

saini_mw · 04-22-2006, 01:17 AM

Hi Dears,

i have a dual boot linux/winxp system,i want to mount my NTFS partition on RedHat,so can anybody susggest which kernel module has to be loaded for that and where can i find the same module,.

Thanks,.

Harinder Singh

billymayday · 04-22-2006, 01:49 AM

Have a look at http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

From memory, Redhat doesn't come with this installed, so you will need to install it. There should be a package to install with yum, I think it's kernel-module-ntfs.

billymayday · 04-22-2006, 01:50 AM

Sorry, should have pointed out that you will only be able to mount as ro - see documentation at url given previously

dalek · 04-22-2006, 12:36 PM

I have read where a !few! people have been able to write to NTFS. If you have anything on there that you don't want to loose, mount as read only as posted. I have read where a lot of people have really messed up their windoze by writing to NTFS.

There is also a kernel option for NTFS but you would have to recompile the kernel or get it to work as a module to use that. I have no idea what would be the best way. Whichever has the best bug fixes I guess.

Be careful with that.

billymayday · 04-23-2006, 03:25 AM

Much safer to have a shared fat32 partition somewhere than risk it though me thinks

dalek · 04-23-2006, 05:41 AM

Much much safer. It would be nice if they would stop changing NTFS so they could write the proper drivers too.

kevkim55 · 04-23-2006, 06:12 AM

Interestingly enough, "captive ntfs" is an ntfs driver which gives full write access to ntfs and is reliable too. I personally use this to write to ntfs partitions. You can read, alter, delete, append, rename... using this driver. It can do virtually anything that the windoz native ntfs driver can do. In fact, thats what it does. It uses the dll files copied from the Windoz installtion or downloads these files from the net and installs them while it uses wine to drive these drivers to do their job. Of course, you can't run chkdsk, scandisk or so using captive from within linux.

I've been using these to copy/move around files from/to reiserfs and ntfs from within linux. In my experience, I've found it a bit too slow, maybe because of the fact that it uses wine to use the windoz native drivers which is a piggy-back-riding process.

The kernel module is not yet suitable for writing to ntfs as it has dire limitations which would make it useless except for reading ntfs partitions. I'd advise against using the kernel module for writing to ntfs.