Re: NTFS mount in Debian Sarge Testing
At Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:03:22 -0800,
Benedek Frank wrote:
>
> On Sunday 12 December 2004 08:41 pm, Shreyas Ananthan wrote:
> > "Shaikh Quader" <ssquader@msn.com> writes:
> > > I am trying to mount an Windows XP ntfs partition under Debian Sarge
> > > (kernel version 2.6.8-1-386) release. I couldn't find the ntfs driver
> > > for debian at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know where I can find the ntfs driver for my system?
> >
> > If you just need to read from the NTFS partition, debian kernel does have a
> > module for that. try
> >
> > modprobe ntfs
> >
> > and then mount the ntfs partition.
> Or you can build your Kernel with the NTFS compiled in, and then you can just
> mount ntfs easily
>
> mount -t ntfs /dev/hda3 /ntfs --> where hda3 is the NTFS partition, and /ntfs
> is the directory you want it to be mounted at.
>
> You can write to NTFS with newer kernels, but it is still in developement. You
> have to compile the kernel with support for writing to NTFS though.
>
You can only change existing files without changing their size, you can't create
new files or append to files, etc. Its mainly useful for holding a filesystem
image on an ntfs partition.
If you need to do proper writing to an ntfs partition the only current solution
is the captive project
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
> Good luck
>
> Ben
>
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