Re: NTFS and Fat32 partitions was: RE: A question.

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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There is captive-ntfs <http://www.jankratochvil.net/>, which can
read/write ntfs using native windows drivers.

Greg


On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 09:55:41PM -0000, Darragh wrote:
> Most 2.6 kernels from what I gather will mount NTFS.  SuSE mounts it
> automagicly to /windows/C.
> 
> To mount a fat32 partition from what I remember you should be able to use a
> command such as the following:
> Mount -vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/fat
> Where hda2 is the partion and fat is a directory you've created in /mnt.
> 
> -vfat may just be vfat without the -. Again, I'm use to SuSE so using 
> Mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/fat will do the trick because it will detect the
> partition type its self.
> 
> I think its SubFS that takes care of this.
> 
> To make this change permanent ad  an entry to /etc/fstab for your fat
> partition. Same with your NTFS partition when you get it up and running.
> 
> There are some kernels with NTFS included but this may need to be activated.
> 
> To do this you will need your kernel sources installed.  These are usually
> installed in /usr/src/linux or /usr/src/*your kernel version*
> 
> 
> I won't go any further as I could write instructions  for doing this for a
> long time but I'm not sure if they'd be of any use to you yet.
> 
> Enjoy, and if you have any more questions feel free to write to me.
> 
> Darragh
> 

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