[lug] mount NTFS without a kernel rebuild?

[John Hernandez]

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A bit of google (redhat ntfs module) turned up this little gem:

http://www.getlinuxonline.com/omp/distro/RedHat/ompntfs2.html

Hope it helps.  Cheers, John

carl.wagner at level3.com wrote:
| This system has a stock kernel, with source installed.
| This is what I get:
|
| /home/cwagner $ modprobe ntfs
| modprobe: Can't locate module ntfs
| /home/cwagner $ insmod ntfs
| insmod: ntfs: no module by that name found
| /home/cwagner $
|
| So to build the module I did a kernel build without installing it (make
| xconfig,
| make clean, make bzImage, make modules)
|
| and then made the /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/fs/ntfs directory
| I copied /usr/src/linux-2.4/fs/ntfs/ntfs.o to
| /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/fs/ntfs
|
| Then I added to /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/modules.dep the line
|    /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.o:
|
| When I ran a # insmod ntfs
| Using /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.o
| /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol
| mark_buffer_dirty_Rsmp_6c1374e7
|
| So I tried the new kernel
|   make modules_install
|   cp /usr/lib/linux-2.4/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot
|   cp /usr/lib/linux-2.4/System.map /boot
|   vi /etc/grub.conf and added
| =====
|      title Red Hat Linux (NEW)
| 	root (hd0,2)
| 	kernel /boot/bzImage ro root=/dev/hda3
| 	initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.9-31.img
| ======
| and booted the new kernel.
|
| It hung on
|   uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdce0, IRQ 11
|
| I am now rebuilding with the config from
| /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/kernel-2.4.7-i686.config
| (this is taking forever, I need to strip out the unused modules)
|
| Carl.
|
|
| "Jarosko, Bill" wrote:
|
|>You mean insmod.
|>
|>-----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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