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38720	2002-03-11 07:19:00	Red Hat 7.2 has support for NTFS but I need to build it into the kernel. I have tried building a kernel for my Zip drive but that didn't go so well when I tested it out. It came back with errors with hde: no interrupt and hdf: no interrupt as well as all the seperate partitions on those drives. Is there a way I can build NTFS into the current kernel. Maybe by getting the settings for this kernel now and adding NTFS onto it then compiling it? I just want to be able to read my NTFS partitions. I know it's still in the alpha stage. I'm just browsing through the HOWTOS now looking for anything relevant.	Guest (0)
38721	2002-03-11 10:18:00	I need ntfs.o module but I don't seem to have it. I downloaded the tar.gz file instead of building it in the kernel & I was goin to insmod it like I did with my Zip which is working. Apparently I have the newer type Zip drive plus which uses the imm module instead of the ppa module so that is fixed. Funny really because it looks like my old one which died with the click of death so I just assumed it was the old type. Also when doing fdisk -l I think I have way too many windows partitions. I should only have 8 partitions 4 on 1 drive and 4 + 3 linux partitions on another. The partition I want access to is the last partition on my first drive G:\ in windows but in Linux it's hde? I don't know which one it is. Is there a way to figure out the size of the partitions because I am trying to get the 20GB partition on the first drive. I don't know which one it is because apparently I have 5 partitions on the 1st drive when I only know of 4 so where did this 5th one come from? It also shows a Win95 Ext'd (LBA) partition & I have no idea what that is as I only have NTFS & FAT32 partitions on the drive.	Guest (0)
38722	2002-03-12 03:34:00	If the NFTS filesystem is still in alpha you DO NOT NEED IT compiled into the kernel. Anyway, the module system is the way to go. It is safer, and saves memory. There is provision for modules to be loaded as needed. Compiling the kernel is something that takes a bit of practice. (I think 7.2 came with some things wron, so it would not compile. I have forgotten what I did to make it compile. I just worked from the error messages. You will have problems with an interrupt shortage until you get a SCSI controller and some devices ... An 'extended' partition is just a way to get around the DOS limit of four partitions on a disk. Logical partitions are allocated inside the extended partition. If you want to know about your partitions, do 'fdisk /dev/hda' then 'p'. Then 'q', 'fdisk /dev/hdb', 'p', etc.	Guest (0)
38723	2002-03-12 10:34:00	I just did a find on linux and it came back with ntfs.o but it wasn't in my modules folder where I would assume it should have been. But now I've got ntfs read capabilities. I didn't want to install the write capabilities as that is something I'll leave windows to do as I have most of my important files on there. But I do appreciate your help.	Guest (0)
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