soko.tica wrote: > On 10/24/09, Mauro Rezzonico <[email protected]> wrote: >> soko.tica wrote: >>> j: 39229.0M 7.9M NTFS >> > ... >>> $ sudo mount -t ext2fs /dev/wd1j /mnt/disk2 >> It appears that wd1j is of type NTFS, not ext2 > > You are right, but: > ==== > $ sudo mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/wd1j /mnt/disk2 > mount_ntfs: /dev/wd1j on /mnt/disk2: Operation not supported > $ sudo mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/wd1c /mnt/disk2 > mount_ntfs: /dev/wd1c on /mnt/disk2: Operation not supported > $ sudo mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/wd1 /mnt/disk2 > mount_ntfs: /dev/wd1 on /mnt/disk2: Operation not supported > $ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/wd1j /mnt/disk2 > mount_ntfs: /dev/wd1j on /mnt/disk2: Operation not supported > $ > ====
GENERIC does not have NTFS support. You need to build an NTFS capable kernel, as per step (1 and) 2 of 'man release'. > > What is strange is that fdisk reports two partition tables, showing > Linux files in first and HPFS/QNX/AUX in second, while disklabel shows > only ntfs. > > Live Systemrescuecd Linux shows both ntfs and ext2, but I can't mount > A6 from it. > > It would be nice if I could get the data before I wipe hdd to upgrade to 4.6

