Linux, NTFS, view my windows hd

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:24 pm

I downloaded the ntfs drivers and tools from sourceforge, but im not sure how to use them exactly to see my windows hard drive. Any help?

Im usin Fedora Core 3, 2.6.9-681.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:35 pm

I'm not sure you actually need the drivers, I believe it should be able to detect and read ntfs drives already. Did you mount the drive?

hermzz · Post by **hermzz** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:06 am

Fedora Core 3 'should' read and mount ntfs drives. Im sure Fedora Core 2 does.

What you might not be able to do is write, because it is currectly unsafe and rather risky if you have sensity data.

Like the guy above said, try mounting:

mount ntfs /dev/hd# /mnt/hd#

replacing # for the appropriate number and make sure /mnt/hd# exists

mmione · Post by **mmione** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 12:22 pm

Yah, you just have to mount the device. If you want to write to it you just have to change the read/write settings.

cchooper · Post by **cchooper** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:53 am

mmione wrote:Yah, you just have to mount the device. If you want to write to it you just have to change the read/write settings.

I would highly recommend against enabling write support. NTFS support in Linux has been experimental and very unstable for a long time now, and while generally that's OK, I've known a few people that have lost alot of data by trying to use it.

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:35 pm

You'll need to load the proper kernel modules before mounting the actual file system.

Stef

cchooper · Post by **cchooper** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:39 am

Stef wrote:You'll need to load the proper kernel modules before mounting the actual file system.

Stef

rgr. I believe the module is simply named "NTFS"

so executing the command `modprobe ntfs` should do the trick.

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:42 pm

Yeah, load the proper module (not sure what it is), then mount the partition with:

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

Just replace the partition number and mount point with the proper ones for your system. If all works well, you can edit /etc/fstab so that the partition is automatically mounted at every boot. Otherwise, you'll be doing it manually every time you'd like read access

Stef