On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:04:27PM +0000, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > On 05 Feb 2003, 13:53:27, Rodrigo Agerri wrote: > > That remarkable Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 13:29, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > > On 04 Feb 2003, 21:58:58, David Turetsky wrote: > > > > I have a hard drive running Windows XP Professional under NTFS format > > > > > > > > I'd like to access that drive from my Woody system but I can't locate a > > > > suitable file type for an /etc/fstab entry > > > > > > ntfs works for me, but I have it mounted RO, and only root has access to > > > it. I haven't fooled around with this yet . . . . > > > > I believe (correct me if I am wrong) that ntfs can *only* be mounted RO, but you >can > > give the user access to it. I have this line in my /etc/fstab > > > > /dev/hda1 /win ntfs ro,noauto,user 0 0 > > Thanks Rodrigo. > > I was recompiling my Kernel this morning and saw that there is an NTFS module > that supports RW, with the notation (Experimental and VERY DANGEROUS) . . > . > > I may give that a shot this weekend.
If you do, please make sure you've backed up the data on your NTFS partition. Last time I tried this (admittedly quite some time ago but is was with the 2.4.x series) I managed to completely trash my NTFS filesystem (and I do mean completely). The note about "VERY DANGEROUS" is not there to make you feel more elite :-) OTOH read-only seems very stable. My "solution" when I must have a box dual booting linux and something that prefers NTFS (win2k, NT 4, XP) is to create two partitions for windows; the "root" I format with NTFS and the other with FAT. This partition is a "data store" and can be safely mounted rw in linux. Good luck! -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This message cannot be considered spam, even though it is. Some law that never was enacted says so. -- Arkadiy Belousov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
