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Mounting a disc containing a NTFS partition

Offline henry44

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Mounting a disc containing a NTFS partition
« on: December 11, 2005, 05:27:13 PM »
Can I mount a hard drive containing a NTFS partition with SME? Will I be able to access the data?

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Thanks for your help,
Henry

ergozd

Mounting a disc containing a NTFS partition
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2005, 06:20:48 PM »
Check out linux.ntfs project
http://www.linux-ntfs.org

Download and install module for your kernel version
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/sourceforge/l/li/linux-ntfs/

Good luck

ruud

Mounting a disc containing a NTFS partition
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2006, 12:34:34 AM »
Henry,

Did it work for you ?

I want to do the same thing, but installing the NTFS kernel gave an error (unresolved symbols in lib/modules/2.4.20-37.7.legacy.....)

ruud

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Mounting a disc containing a NTFS partition
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2006, 12:49:49 AM »
I solved my problem another way and never used the links. I'm of no help to you here, sorry.
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Thanks for your help,
Henry

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Mounting a disc containing a NTFS partition
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2006, 01:24:47 AM »
Assuming we are talking about SME7

Support for NTFS is not included in RHEL so a kernel recompile will be required.

You end up with a non standard SME7 server.

Writing to NTFS partions from Linux is asking for problems, so any drive you use, will probably have data errors once you return it to a native Windows machine.

Maybe a FAT32 formatted hard disk is a much easier option, unless you can get Microsoft to add ext3 into Windows.

Dave
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