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Are there any Linux/UNIX distros out recently that will auto-detect and auto-mount NTFS volumes?

BillGates

BillGates

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I have tried various versions of Linux, most recently 6 months ago or so with Red Hat 9 and was disappointed that partitions are still not auto-mounted. I have 4 drives and maybe 7 partitions total. I have found a few commands to mount these partitions but they never seemed to work, and at the same time I was somewhat worried I'd somehow hose the partitions and lose gigs and gigs of data.

Are there any recent releases that will auto-detect and auto-mount (NTFS) partitions on other hard drives yet?
 
you have to have ntfs support compiled into your kernel. its quite experimental, however the readonly access is pretty safe.
enabling write support is a separate option, and not recommended.

from the kernel config help:

NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT. Say Y if you want
to get read access to files on NTFS partitions of your hard drive.
The Linux NTFS driver supports most of the mount options of the VFAT
driver, see Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt. Saying Y here
will give you read-only access to NTFS partitions.

and the write support:

If you say Y here, you will (maybe) be able to write to NTFS file
systems as well as read from them. The read-write support in NTFS
is far from being complete and is not well tested. If you say Y
here, back up your NTFS volume first, since it will probably get
damaged. Also, download the Linux-NTFS project distribution from
Sourceforge at <http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/> and always run the
included ntfsfix utility after writing to an NTFS partition from
Linux to fix some of the damage done by the driver. You should run
ntfsfix _after_ unmounting the partition in Linux but _before_
rebooting into Windows. When Windows next boots, chkdsk will be
run automatically to fix the remaining damage.
Please note that write support is limited to Windows NT4 and
earlier versions.
 
or you can just try knoppix, a bootable linux distro. Just boot of the cd, and it will detect most of your hardware and mount your drives..

I hope this helps,
pitupepito😛
 
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdxX /mnt

where x is a d b or c for primary master, slave, secondary master, slave, and X is the partition number starting at 1. that might help.
 
BBWF, I believe RedHat's official line on the non-inclusion of NTFS support is that there are "licensing issues" and it is of "dubious legality"

There is a project that releases RPMs for the kernel installation; all you have to do is install the RPM and modprobe it.

Linky
 
Originally posted by: Flatline
BBWF, I believe RedHat's official line on the non-inclusion of NTFS support is that there are "licensing issues" and it is of "dubious legality"

There is a project that releases RPMs for the kernel installation; all you have to do is install the RPM and modprobe it.

Linky
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Ah, go figure. No mp3's, no ntfs, what next, no linux kernel (it's of dubious legality!)? 😛
 
Hrm...I do have a distro of MAndrake 9 laying here that I might install over my Redhat 9.0 Distro. Even though Redhat is a lot clearer I had to add mp3 support, install the mp3 thing, compile and install MVPlayer, get my tvout working and whatever.

And then the main reason I switched over to Redhat wasn't there: the ability to cycle wallpaper!!!!! Argh WTF is Redhat smoking! Mandrake would let me do that but on Redhat I can only have one.

And yes...its highly annoying it is real stripped down b/c of legality
 
here is what I use linky. Works great for my system. It enables NTFS support for Redhat. You just have to edit your /etc/fstab file (which this page also explains). Enjoy
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
And yes...its highly annoying it is real stripped down b/c of legality
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Yea really, who cares about laws...
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I wouldn't realy call it legality, I call is pseudo-legiality. Unless they use MS code I wouldn't think it would be a problem. I mean, is against the law to know how ntfs works? Or just to use that knowledge. The only legal problem I see is MS lawyers stepping in and making it illigal to make any product that is compatable with windows. What a joke. Reminds me when Nitendo tried to make it illigal to produce gaming cartrages that worked on the NESthat didn't liscence from nintendo for that little official nintendo logo on the game's packaging. grrr
 
Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Just learn how to edit /etc/fstab, do so, and that's that.
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Not with RH, they don't include the NTFS module by default.
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That seems pretty braindead, is there a reason why?
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Cause they're aiming at the corporate world, and if by some freak accident the NTFS driver corrupts a filesystem for some CEO somewhere, that's Very Bad.

That's my guess anyway, but then, it's RedHat, they do funny stuff now and then, like the GCC 2.96 ordeal.
 
Thanks for all the info everyone! Looks like I'll have a lot to keep me busy for the next few days as I give Linux another shot!
 
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