Hi people

In Fedora 5 the NTFS file system is activated? If no, anybady can show
me that I access this partition, or which mount command or smb.

thanks

Diogo

"Renato" <renato.diogo@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi people
>
> In Fedora 5 the NTFS file system is activated? If no, anybady can show
> me that I access this partition, or which mount command or smb.
>
> thanks

Take a look at the kernel config files, usually stashed in
/boot/config-[kernel-name], and look for the NTFS options. RedHat's been
very reluctant to enable NTFS-write, for good reasons, and even reluctant to
enable NTFS-read due to some old reported fragility.

You may need to build your own kernel, which is pretty easy to do and make
an RPM for a kernel with NTFS support.

On 12 Apr 2006 05:18:21 -0700, "Renato" <renato.diogo@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi people
>
>In Fedora 5 the NTFS file system is activated? If no, anybady can show
>me that I access this partition, or which mount command or smb.
>
>thanks
>
>Diogo

Hello,

http://www.linux-ntfs.org will give you the rpm's you need. Then you
can mount the partition automatically through /etc/fstab

HTH

Buck

Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:

> Take a look at the kernel config files, usually stashed in
> /boot/config-[kernel-name], and look for the NTFS options. RedHat's been
> very reluctant to enable NTFS-write, for good reasons, and even reluctant to
> enable NTFS-read due to some old reported fragility.

I think it's much more likely to be wariness about possible patent
infringement. ttp://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/120/59/

And the current usability of NTFS-write in the ntfsprogs userspace
(FUSE-type, I think) toolset is reportedly awfully good:
http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=status Maybe your information is
outdated?

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Rick Moen wrote:
> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Take a look at the kernel config files, usually stashed in
>> /boot/config-[kernel-name], and look for the NTFS options. RedHat's
>> been very reluctant to enable NTFS-write, for good reasons, and even
>> reluctant to enable NTFS-read due to some old reported fragility.
>
> I think it's much more likely to be wariness about possible patent
> infringement. ttp://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/120/59/
>
> And the current usability of NTFS-write in the ntfsprogs userspace
> (FUSE-type, I think) toolset is reportedly awfully good:
> http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=status Maybe your information
> is outdated?

I don't think so: NTFS-write is perilous becaue the magic of Windows file
ownership is fairly "special", and vulnerable to change by Microsoft without
warning as has happened before.

The fragility of the read-only tools is old, and I for one would like to see
them included. But if a user does screw up their Windows box by using tools
that haven't been through completely thorough testing but were lying around
built-in by default, expect a lot of complaints and whining from the people
who lost data. The caution is understandable.

In comp.os.linux.setup Renato <renato.diogo@gmail.com>:
> Hi people

> In Fedora 5 the NTFS file system is activated? If no, anybady can show
> me that I access this partition, or which mount command or smb.

Is this partition local or remote (smb)?

Why don't you look it up?

grep -i ntfs /boot/config-`uname -r`
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set

yum install kmod-ntfs

Should get you the needed kernel modules. Check
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ for additional tools you might want to
use. Be sure to update your system to the latest patches, using
yum, can save you lots of trouble.

Good luck

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Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:

> I don't think so: NTFS-write is perilous becaue the magic of Windows file
> ownership is fairly "special", and vulnerable to change by Microsoft without
> warning as has happened before.

If memory serves, that was accompanied by a change in NTFS version,
which the badly written initial NTFS drivers for Linux didn't bother to
check.

> The caution is understandable.

To repeat, the caution (on RH's part) seems to primarily concern
possible patent infringement. Thus the point of my earlier post.

I will go look this site (http://www.linux-ntfs.org/) and read more
about this in this site...

thank´s

If I will need, I will post again

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