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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dev kernel 2.6.9 and ntfs mount
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 12:01:17
Message-Id: m3k6t1suix.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dev kernel 2.6.9 and ntfs mount by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> writes:
2
3 > On Wednesday 03 November 2004 09:10 pm, Harry Putnam wrote:
4 >> This may really belong on `users' where I am posting about it too.
5 >> But since it involves the `dev' kernel I thought maybe someone here
6 >> might be more likely to know what is what with it.
7 >
8 > this is definitely gentoo-user material
9
10 There is an ongoing thread there...
11
12 >> I want to mount at least and possibly write to ntfs fs from a gentoo
13 >> install. I've built my kernel from gentoo-dev-sources using genkernel
14 >> and only edited these:
15 >
16 > if you value your data you wont write to it
17
18 Do you have examples? Or some details? What about deleting?
19
20 >> CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG=y
21 >> CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y
22 >>
23 >> This one was already defaulted to `m'
24 >> CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
25 >>
26 >> Are there any other params I need to edit inorder to mount ntfs?
27 >
28 > no, just load the module
29 >
30 >> With above described kernel, my mount command tells me:
31 >> mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp
32 >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
33 >> or too many mounted file systems
34 >
35 > make sure /proc/filesystems lists ntfs
36
37 It does and lsmod shows the ntfs module loaded. Any other ideas why
38 mount would fail?
39
40 A direct modprobe ntfs doesn't change anything.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dev kernel 2.6.9 and ntfs mount Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>