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Title: Mounting a disc containing a NTFS partition
Post by: henry44 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?

Thanks...........

Title: Mounting a disc containing a NTFS partition
Post by: ergozd 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

Title: Mounting a disc containing a NTFS partition
Post by: ruud 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

Title: Mounting a disc containing a NTFS partition
Post by: henry44 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.

Title: Mounting a disc containing a NTFS partition
Post by: dsemuk 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