Accessing an NTFS partition

[Gregory Nowak]

Yes, this is correct. Using ntfsrw can lead to filesystem corruption. This is the reason why there is no ntfsrw support in speakimage.

Greg


On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:58:53PM +0000, igueths at attbi.com wrote:
> Hi. You do have the syntax correct. Only thing I would watch out for is last 
> time I rebuilt the kernel, I saw a blurb about it being dangerous to enable 
> NTFS_WRITE support. I'm just not clear on whether or not the reason for that is 
> because that module isn't very stable for widespread use, or whether there is 
> some other reason. I will check on that when I get back to my Linux machine 
> which won't be for a while. 
> > Firstly you need ntfs support compiled as a module or as part of the
> > kernel.
> > Then you mount the drive and tell the mount that it is ntfs.
> > 
> > I think the mount statement looks something like:
> > mount -t ntfs [device] [mount point]
> > Check the man page for mount to make sure that the syntax is correct,
> > because I am doing it from the top of my head.
> > 
> > note: [device] is the ntfs drive, and [mount point] is the directory
> > that you are going to attach the ntfs drive to. so you may want to
> > create a directory in /mnt something like ntfs.
> > 
> > mkdir /mnt/ntfs
> > 
> > HTH!
> > Steve Dawes
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