How can I mount NTFS partitions in Slack 9. It was automatically set up in Mandrake, so Im knowledgless. It doesnt show up as a mountable partition in Kwikdisk, even though its viewable through fdisk. I know I cant write to them, but Id love to be able to read them. If it helps, my partition is in /dev/hda5

Is NTFS support compiled into the kernel? I believe that the default does not include read-only support. You may need to complile this into the kernel, or compile it as a module.

How would I go about doing this?

Any help would be appreciated.

I think slackware will compile the read support for ntfs by default. I still wouldn't try writting from linux. For automatic mounting do the following. To read the partition go to /etc then open fstab in a text editor and add the line:

/dev/hda1 /windows ntfs defaults 0 0

where hda1 is your windows drive and /windows is the directory where you would like to see the windows drive. You can change the directory to anything you like. Make the directory specified above, /windows in this case. Then do:

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /windows

replacing things appropriately. Just match it to the fstab. Then u will be able to read ntfs and copy files from it. You could, I think change the permissions, to be able to write but I wouldn't try that. After this every time u boot u can just go to /windows without the mount to access the windows drive. I hope that helps.

If u dont have ntfs support in the kernel then its a little bit harder. Then you can start by downloading the kernel source from an ftp and installing it. From then follow the instructions on compiling the kernel that have already been posted making sure to enable ntfs. I am a little bit lost what would be an easy way to check this except installing the kernel source then running xconfig and seeing whether it is enabled. There is probably a lot simpler way of doing this.

you should be able to modprobe ntfs just fine, that will tell you if it will work

just do this

to find out if you have ntfs do a

cat /proc/filesystems

thats going to give you a listing of all of the file systems that your kernel supports. IF you see ntfs then it supports it.

if your kernel supports ntfs which it should by default just do this so you can see your ntfs partion.

make a dir in the /mnt folder and lets say you name it windows.

then do this commad to mount.


mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222

change hda1 to its its corresponding values depending on where your partition is.

To make it mount automatically each time you reboot add a line like this to the /etc/fstab file

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0

Thanks, your help worked perfect!

get the rpm from this link:
http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2htm...ry=kernel-ntfs

okej i have the same problem just that nothing of this works...

now what ?

i did all that above and it worked but how do i view the folder if im not loged in as root.......i tried as a user and it no work.....help plz

You need to to edit your /etc/fstab file. Here is what mine looks like, with my NTFS partition being /dev/hda1. I dual boot between slack and win2k.

/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb3 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb4 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Just edit the file, and add a line for your ntfs parion. Mine is read only. I have it mount to /mnt/windows.

well aaaa...i tried what u posted Philp but no worky.....it works as root but still i have no permission as a user...

very helpful