Topic: Mounting NTFS

[Marcus Giles]

Hi peoples.

I'm trying to mount a NTFS'ed partition on my e-smith 4.1 boxen and it comes up with this:
[root@smythe /mnt]# mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt/eee/
mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

Is there any reason why you don't support NTFS? And how can I fix this problem?

Thanks for your time guys
Marcus

[Jeb Campbell]

I am just assuming that you threw another drive into the e-smith machine and you wanted to get some files off it.  There is no ntfs support in the stock kernel because it is 1) experimental code for read-only and 2) very experimental to write to ntfs partitions.  If you plan to use the partition, make it ext2 (the default for linux), which is better, faster, stronger, etc.  If you need the files, I would recommend putting the drive in another machine, mounting, and copying the files over to the e-smith machine (that is unless you want to coplile your own kernel, which would take longer than switching drives).  But don't put ntfs on the e-smith, because you won't need it in the long run.