NT file system mounting

[Thomas Mondoshawan Tate]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 03:20:00PM -0700, lynn tilby wrote:
> 
> I have a dual boot system.  I am trying to mount an NT file system.
> My NT file systems are NTFS.
> 
> [root@polaris /root]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda4 /mnt/msd/c
> [root@polaris /root]# mount -t vfat -v /dev/hda3 /mnt/msd/c
> 
> Any thoughts???

Since the filesystem type you're trying to mount is NTFS, the VFAT
filesystem will be completely useless. What you'll want to issue on the
commandline is this:

[root@crystaldragon /]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hd?? /mnt/where/you/want/it

Note that you'll have to make sure you have the NTFS driver compiled either
as a module (and properly inserted into the kernel) or staticially for this
to work. Note that the -t flag tells mount what kind of filesystem to use
for the mount procedure. Normally, without this flag, mount will attempt to
probe which filesystem the disk has on it via the /etc/filesystems file. Eg:
if I were to type in 'mount /dev/discs/disc0/disc /mnt/wherever' and my
/etc/filesystems file contained the lines

		 ntfs
		 ext2
		 ext3
		 reiserfs

Then mount would try each in turn until it either mounts successfully or it
reaches the end of the list (at which time it will error out).

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
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