[lug] mount NTFS without a kernel rebuild?

[Jarosko, Bill]

This would assume that the module is already loaded yes?

-----Original Message-----
From: rm at fabula.de [mailto:rm at fabula.de]
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 11:18 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] mount NTFS without a kernel rebuild?


On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:48:29AM -0500, Jarosko, Bill wrote:
> You mean insmod.

Is this a question? I usually do 'modprobe -k my_module' unless i need
to specify parameters to the module.

  Ralf

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris [mailto:lists at morris-clan.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:43 AM
> To: Boulder Linux User's Group
> Subject: Re: [lug] mount NTFS without a kernel rebuild?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:26:09AM -0600, carl.wagner at level3.com wrote:
> > Is there a way to get the kernel module for NTFS without having to
> > rebuild the whole kernel?  I want to grab some files from my nt partition.
> 
> If you are using a pre-built kernel, you can probably just
> probe the module:
> 
>     modprobe ntfs
> 
> Otherwise, you probably built the kernel yourself and, if
> you still have that directory around you built in, you can
> follow the instructions from another post to get just the
> module built...you might search the net (perhaps visit
> kernel.org) for details of incrementally building new
> modules, as it is easy once you know how to do it (never
> needed to).
> 
> BTW, I also suggest you use xconfig, not menuconfig.
> 
> --David
> 
> 
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