NT file system mounting

[Kevin Brown]

vfat is for fat32 and fat16 partitions with long filename support, NTFS is
neither of those.  There is a read-only NTFS fs module for kernels.  Looks like
it isn't by default built for kernels, so you will have to build it yourself.

uname -a    <-- shows you what kernel you are currently running

download that version if all you want to do is add the ntfs module.  Once
downloaded, uncompress it in /usr/src.  This will create the directory
/usr/src/linux

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig

scroll down to File systems
scroll through it till you find "< > NTFS file system support (read only)"
hit the spacebar to change it to "<M> NTFS file system support (read only)"

Now exit out and save your configuration.  Then all you should have to do is
"make modules && make modules_install"

That should build and install the NTFS module (someone please correct me if I
have this wrong).

now:

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda4 /mnt/msd/c

or:

mount -t NTFS /dev/hda4 /mnt/msd/c

> I have a dual boot system.  I am trying to mount an NT file system.
> My NT file systems are NTFS.
> 
> I have tried the following, with the following results...
> 
> [root@polaris /root]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda4 /mnt/msd/c
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda4,
>        or too many mounted file systems
>        (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
>        instead of some logical partition inside?)
> 
> [root@polaris /root]# mount -t vfat -v /dev/hda3 /mnt/msd/c
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3,
>        or too many mounted file systems
>        (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
>        instead of some logical partition inside?)
> 
> Any thoughts???
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Lynn
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