[KLUG Members] Is NTFS not supported?

[Alan DeJong]

"Bryan J. Smith" wrote:

> 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
>

when i type # modprobe ntfs nothing happens, it just drops me down a line..
Does that mean it is not supported?

>
> 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.
>

Well i upgraded WinME to Win2k, and converted the filesystem to NTFS, so my
guess is that it is running NTFS v5.