To get access(read only) to NTFS paritions from RH, you'll need to reconfigure(and rebuild) the kernel - there's a kernel option to support NTFS filesystems, which is "off" by default.
HTH. -- Hardy Merrill Senior Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. Christopher Henderson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 09:15, Nick Lindsell wrote: > > At 08:33 11/12/2002 -0600, you wrote: > > >I must have contracted a virus 'cause I can no longer boot into Windows > > >XP. Ugh. Thankfully most of my important files are on a separate ext3 > > >formated disk. However there are still a few things I'd like to > > >retrieve from that are on my Win XP disk which is formated with NTFS. I > > >have the latest Red Hat kernel and I'm running RH 8. How do I go about > > >mounting and accessing this partition? I understand that I couldn't > > >write to it, I think, but all I need is to read n copy some files and > > >directories before I re-format and re-install. > > > > > >Thnx, > > >~Christopher > > > > > > > > mount -t ntfs /dev/hdaX /mnt > > should be close.... > > > > If you're not sure which is the ntfs partion, "fdisk /dev/hda" will show you. > > > > > > hih > > nick@nexnix > > > > mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel > > was the error I got. Is there a module I load to fix this or must I > recompile the kernel? If there is a module I need to load - which and > how? > > Thnx, > ~Christopher -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
