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Recompile Red Hat 9.0 Kernel to read NTFS

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awreneau

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Can anybody "hold my hand" while I do this. I've never recompiled the Kernel before but I have a need on my current machine (dual boot, XP and RH 9.0) to access My Documents, read only.

I've found ton of info, but not a "how to" that is complete but not an overkill.

Holler if ya hear me.

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Why recompile your kernel? You should already be able to read from an NTFS partition. Setting the SUID to the mounted folder will probably do it.
 
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Right, to mount your drive, first create a mount point.
mkdir /mnt/ntfs
Then you need to mount it, if its the first partition on the primary master then it will be /dev/hda1 for example.
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs
then cd into that directory and check all is well. Now, if you want that to be there from when you first turn on the computer without having to mount it every time, open up /etc/fstab in a text editor (such as nano) and go to the bottom. Add this:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs defaults 0 0

Then save it. This should get you read-only to the ntfs partition. To do more look at: Linux NTFS file system support:
The goals of this project are: create a new Linux kernel driver for the NTFS file system (v1.2 and later 3.0), user space utilities (e.g. format, ntfs check, etc.) and a library to avoid code duplication and provide access to NTFS to other GPLed programs.

Regards,
MontyW, Princeton NJ. USA, 3rd rock from the sun!

Regards
Montyw
 
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Sorry so late with getting back, but I tried that and on the startup when RH is intilizing this and that I get an error that FS NTFS not supported by KERNEL.


Would it be easier to reinstall and pass an option to the kernel to be compiled with that option?

Being I cant access NTFS I've just been working in winbloze for the time untill I break FRREEEEEE

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