Mounting non ext3 partitions

[adjackson39]

I am trying to mount my NTFS partition and I am not sure how to do that. I am running red hat, and want to transfer a few files around.

Well Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Anthony

[bonzai]

Haven't played with Linux in a while, but I think the latest Linux kernel has only very little write capabilities, if any, for NTFS partitions. You need to find out what version your linux kernel is. You should be able to read NTFS, but not write, or you might risk damaging your hard drive. I would say you should read some stuff on it before you start transferring a few files around.

[adjackson39]

Ok, thanks for the help. I played around with the mount command and found out that the kernel that I have does not even support mounting ntfs or fat partitions. You guidance is much appreciated. Thanks

[LocoCoyote]

You can compile your own Redhat kernel with NTFS support or you can get a copy of SuSE or Mandrake; they install with NTFS support as a default.

The above not withstanding, I recommend a fat32 partion for swapping files, writeing to NTFS is iffy at best.

[MichaelS]

if anyone is curious, the following should work:

mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs

The above assumes that the /mnt/ntfs mount point exists already and that /dev/hda1 is an NTFS partition

Mike