Re: mounting an ntfs disk

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:11:59 -0500

"Davide Bianchi" <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote in message
news:slrnctvs0n.135.davideyeahsure@fogg.onlyforfun.net...
> On 2005-01-08, KB <kboruff@_REMOVE_optonline.net> wrote:
>> The result I got back was that my kernel does not support ntfs.
>
> Try to load the ntfs module (modprobe ntfs) if it doesn't work
> you'll have to recompile your kernel adding the support for it.
>
> Davide

Most kernels don't include this by default, since NTFS is a moving target
and Microsoft changes it without warning, and the kernel authors don't want
to be liable for people mucking up their Windows disks with the NTFS write
module in particular.

But I've had good luck with the NTFS read module, and in fact it thoroughly
ignores the NTFS weird flipping ACL security and allows Linux users direct
access to r{ÆÆÿevery non-encrypted file on the disk, even "protected" ones.

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