Accessing an NTFS partition

[Darragh]

Thanks every one.  Will only need to get files off the partition at the 
moment so read support is fine.

Thanks again

Darragh
At 17:00 17/12/2002 -0600, you wrote:

>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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