mounting an ntfs partition in mandrake 8.0

[estesflyer]

would it be something like:

login as root

mkdir /mnt/windowsxp
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda /mnt/windowsxp

??

TIA

- Rusty - Rusty

 

[ifincham]

Hi,



Yes .. something like that. You might have to do a '/sbin/modprobe ntfs' first to load the ntfs module into memory - then do :



mount /dev/hda1 -t ntfs /mnt/windowsxp



Note its something like /dev/hda1 not /dev/hda. The latter is the whole disk but you mount partitions not disks so you need the partition number. To view the partition table do (as root)



/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda



That will show where the ntfs partition is.



Regards

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Oops forgot to mention - ntfs partition support does include read/write but its not 100% reliable on the write side. So I'd recommend mounting with the read-only option :

mount /dev/hda1 -t ntfs -o ro /mnt/windowsxp

Rgds