[gentoo-dev] Dev kernel 2.6.9 and ntfs mount

[Harry Putnam]

This may really belong on `users' where I am posting about it too.
But since it involves the `dev' kernel I thought maybe someone here
might be more likely to know what is what with it.

Can anyone here tell me what all might need to be edited in the
current gentoo-dev-sources kernel? (recent snapshot vintage)

I want to mount at least and possibly write to ntfs fs from a gentoo
install.  I've built my kernel from gentoo-dev-sources using genkernel
and only edited these:

  CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG=y
  CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y

This one was already defaulted to `m'
  CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m

Are there any other params I need to edit inorder to mount ntfs?

With above described kernel, my mount command tells me:
  mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp
  mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
       or too many mounted file systems

Fdisk shows it present at /dev/hda1:
     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/hda1   *           1        5354    43005973+   7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/hda2            5355       30401   201190027+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
  /dev/hda5            5355        5393      313236   82  Linux swap
  /dev/hda6            5394        6794    11253501   83  Linux

lsmod shows ntfs loaded if I modprobe it directly to make sure,
the mount cmd gives same output.


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