NTFS--MOUNTING PROBLEM

NTFS--MOUNTING PROBLEM

[csaradap]

I have installed Red Hat 7.1 from PCQ, and my disk shares NT with LINUX.
By default I think NTFS file support was not installed, so i recompiled
the kernel with that support selected. But still it is giving that
NTFS not suppoted and while mounting under HPFS i get error like too mny
mounted file systems. plz help...

thanx

ch.s.p.nanda

Re: NTFS--MOUNTING PROBLEM

[Richard Russon]

Hi,

> I have installed Red Hat 7.1 from PCQ, and my disk shares NT with LINUX.
> By default I think NTFS file support was not installed, so i recompiled
> the kernel with that support selected. But still it is giving that
> NTFS not suppoted

The best place to start is /proc/filesystems   This lists all the
filesystem types that the kernel knows about.

When you compliled the kernel did you enable NTFS as an inline part
of the kernel "Y" or a loadable module "M"?

If it's part of the kernel, then you should copy the kernel to /boot
edit /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and reboot.

If you're using modules, then as root, "make modules_install" from
the kernel source tree and "modprobe ntfs".  If that succeeds then
"lsmod" should show something like:
    Module    Size  Used by
    ntfs     47152   0  (unused)

If this doesn't help, try reading the Kernel HOWTO:

  http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html

Cheers,
  FlatCap (Rich)
  ntfs@flatcap.org

Re: NTFS--MOUNTING PROBLEM

[Anton Altaparmakov]

At 13:17 20/09/01, csaradap wrote:
>I have installed Red Hat 7.1 from PCQ, and my disk shares NT with LINUX.
>By default I think NTFS file support was not installed, so i recompiled
>the kernel with that support selected. But still it is giving that
>NTFS not suppoted and while mounting under HPFS i get error like too mny
>mounted file systems. plz help...

Sorry if this is a really stupid questions, but did you install the new 
kernel and boot into it after recompiling?

If you compiled NTFS as a module did you also "make modules" and "make 
modules_install"? Did you try to load the ntfs module manually?

Does /proc/filesystems list ntfs as an available filesystem?

If all of the above are ok, can you copy out the EXACT error message you 
get when you try the mount?

Anton


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