kernel not supporting ntfs

[Roderick Ford]

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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