Topic: 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

[Dan Brown]

As has mentioned numerous times, e-smith uses a stock RedHat 7 kernel, which apparently doesn't include NTFS support (perhaps it's in an additional RPM).  E-smith itself would have no reason at all to support NTFS, as the server and gateway bit is handled just fine by the Linux ext2 filesystem

Best bet is to take a look at RH7 and see how it handles NTFS, then install the appropriate RPMs on the e-smith box.

[Marcus Giles]

Thanks for your reply.
I did not know that RH7 didn't support NTFS, thanks for pointing it out.

Marcus Dan Brown wrote:
>
> As has mentioned numerous times, e-smith uses a stock RedHat
> 7 kernel, which apparently doesn't include NTFS support
> (perhaps it's in an additional RPM).  E-smith itself would
> have no reason at all to support NTFS, as the server and
> gateway bit is handled just fine by the Linux ext2 filesystem
>
> Best bet is to take a look at RH7 and see how it handles
> NTFS, then install the appropriate RPMs on the e-smith box.

[Dan Brown]

Neither did I, until I looked through the lib/modules directories.  Not sure why, as I'm pretty sure earlier versions did support it.