[KLUG Members] Is NTFS not supported?

[Bryan J. Smith]

Alan DeJong wrote:
> I just upgraded winME (fat32) to Win2k (ntfs)... well, my problem is that
> when i try to mount my windows partition, it says that NTFS is not a
> supported file system.  Is this true, or do i have to upgrade something?
> When i look at the man page for "mount" it says ntfs is supported.. Hmm...
> -Alan

First off, you may or may not have the NTFS filesystem module
compiled for your kernel.  Try:
   # modprobe ntfs

To see if your kernel has NTFS support as a loadable module.

Secondly, Windows 2000 uses NTFS v5 by default.  Linux does not
support NTFS v5.  So unless you upgraded from an existing NT 4.0
system with NTFS v4, you're system probably uses NTFS v5.

I won't go into more details on NTFS v5 for the sake of brievity.

-- TheBS

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