Anyone get Redhat 9 to recognize NTFS partitions right away?

[MuffD]

I just got done downloading it and will send it to my house in a second but was wondering if anyone here already installed it and had any problems recognizing NTFS partitions right away.

Thanks

 

[asb002]

I don't think there will be a problem recognizing or even mounting the NTFS partition in Linux. However, at present you can only read the NTFS, you cannot write to it. This is documented in the FAQs at the top of the forum.

 

[Nothinman]

They left the NTFS support out of RH8 so I would assume they'd do the same with RH9.

It's not terribly hard to add back in either, though.

 

[thraxes]

RH8 needed the corresponding modules to be installed from the net first. Out of the Box it is a "no go"

Once installed which is really easy you can read all the NTFS you want... but don't write to em! Best to mount it as write protected.

 

[Nothinman]

Once installed which is really easy you can read all the NTFS you want... but don't write to em! Best to mount it as write protected.

Doesn't matter. You need special compiler directives to enable writing to NTFS partitions, even if you mount read-write it'll fail. If those modules I've seen distributed in RPM format come compiled with write support enabled I wouldn't trust them on my partitions (provided I had any NTFS partitions).

 

[LinuxIdiot]

Go here

This will give you the access to mount an ntfs and read but it is RECOMMENDED that you do not enable write ability as this could futz up your NTFS drive.