[KLUG Members] Is NTFS not supported?

[jeff]

my suse can read my ntfs v5 partition just fine :) so before you go and say
it's not supported by "linux" umm... yeah


Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Saturday, 04 August, 2001 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Is NTFS not supported?


> 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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