kernel not supporting ntfs

Blake Barnett plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
13 Feb 2002 13:51:25 -0700


Go with 2.4.17.  If you're brave try 2.4.18pre9.

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 12:16, Roderick Ford wrote:
> Blake Barnett wrote:
> > There were some bugs with NTFS in earlier 2.4 kernels.. you should
> > upgrade.
> > 
> > cat /proc/filesystems
> > 
> > Check the list to see if NTFS is there.  That will tell you if it
> > actually loaded the driver correctly.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Okay, so...try recompiling?
> [root@rotoroot /vm]# cat /proc/filesystems
> nodev   sockfs
> nodev   tmpfs
> nodev   shm
> nodev   pipefs
> nodev   proc
>          ext2
>          iso9660
> nodev   devpts
> nodev   usbdevfs
>          vfat
> nodev   autofs
> 
> 
> 
> Kevin Brown wrote:
>  > Is it compiled into the kernel or as a module?  If into the kernel 
> did you
>  > reboot with that kernel being loaded?  If it's compiled as a module 
> can you
>  > modprobe it into memory? (man modprobe).
>  >
>  >
> 
> no, compiled using make xconfig, selected y not m...
> 
> > On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 11:22, rford wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello,
> >>I have ntfs(ro) support compiled into my kernel 2.4.2, but when I try to 
> >>mount the ntfs partition I get "mount: fs type ntfs not supported by 
> >>kernel" ... anyone have experience with this?
> >>
> >>Rod
> >>
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