[lug] mount NTFS

[Mr Viggy]

Read only is good, because AFAIK, NTFS write is still experimental.

Now, as far as VMWare goes, depending on how you setup your VMWare 
"disk" you can't directly mount your hard drive.  For example, if you 
setup a "virtual disk" on your NTFS drive, you need to treat your RH 
VMWare installation as a seperate machine on your network.  So, in order 
to mount your NTFS file system, you actually need to use Samba, or the 
'smbfs' filesystem.  Which is actually better!  Why?  Because, like I 
said, NTFS write is still experimental and can screw up your disk!

OTOH, if you install RH on the same hard drive as your Windows OS, but 
you boot directly into it, you would need to use the NTFS file system to 
mount it; because the file system is on the same harddrive as the OS.

Think of VMWare's virtual disk as if it were a completely different 
system on a network connected to your host system.

So, to make a long story short, check out Samba, and the smbfs file system.

Viggy


luke p wrote:
> How do I mount an NTFS partition in RH 7.3? Is there something unique I 
> need to set up before I can just use the mount command? Also, can it be 
> mounted when its active, i.e. I'm in Windows (XP) already, using VMware 
> to boot Linux (on a dual boot machine) so from within Linux under Vmware 
> mount the NTFS partition? (At most I only need to have read ability).
> 
> Thanks
> Luke
> 
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