[lug] HPFS/NTFS

[Anders Knudsen]

You can mount an NTFS file system (sort of), after rebuilding the
kernel, and then as read only. Even then, it's not a very stable setup.
This is because NTFS is not an open standard, and of course M$ is not
going to release its innards. I tried it a while back, and then backed
it out of the kernel, because of the instability.

Do a google search of "linux ntfs howto" and you will find some more
detailed information.

-anders.


On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 14:57, Arlan Ramsay wrote:
> 
> Consider an HP Pavilion set up to boot both linux and windows xp,
> with several partitions.  fdisk says that /dev/hda2 has type
> 7, HPFS/NTFS.  mount refuses to mount that partition, saying
> that the fs type HPFS/NTFS is not supported by the kernel.  Does
> that mean that the kernel must be rebuilt?  Can it even be
> done by rebuilding?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Arlan Ramsay
> 
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Anders Knudsen
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