wich distro has better ntfs (read) support

[RedHat123]

i need to pull over my data from a disk that is formatted in ntfs (formerly running win2kpro)

just wondering which distro should work right away without re-compiling the kernel etc...

i think today, im going to pick up either suse 9.1 personal or the book redhat 9 bible" that has cd's in the back.

im just too lazy to build my own installation, besides my workstation with the cd burner is ka-poot, neither of my other pc's have burners....

[saikee]

Don't think you have a problem to read the ntfs files but you need to process them in Linux in a partition with a file system Windows can read them back.

Knoppix claims to have a read/write program but it surrended after the first trial. I think it is too early for Linux to write ntfs files reliably at the moment.

I would be interested in what the experts have to say too.

[MorphiusFaydal]

RH9, Fedora, Mandrake, Suse, Slackware..any recent deistro can all read NTFS (out of the box)

so if you want data off of the drive, just use one of those.. if you want to get data back to windows, you are gonna need a fat32 partition.. as thats the only thing that both linux and windows can (safely) read and write to that they both understand..

[fatTrav]

any distro that is recent will work. I don't know about Red Hat 9 though. Way back when that was released I think all you could do was read NTFS and that was experimental.

I know Mandrake 10 and Slackware 10 can read/write NTFS out of the box b/c (at the time) I had an NTFS partition and during the install I was asked if I wanted to be able to read and write to that partition and to have that partition mounted somewhere, something like that.

[RedHat123]

i just installed fedora , runs great after having a bit of router/dhcp trouble.

how do i go about mounting an ntfs volume, is it just like mounting any other drive ?

[fatTrav]

yes.

[linuxbrain]

when I try to use the above mentioned program I get an error message.

I Type this : mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/captive-noname/

I get this error : mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

I am running a fresh install of Fedore core 1.

Please help.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by linuxbrain
when I try to use the above mentioned program I get an error message.

I Type this : mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/captive-noname/

I get this error : mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

I am running a fresh install of Fedore core 1.

Please help. Just what it says..."Not supported by kernel". You'll have to re-compile your kernel for NTFS support. Just to see if its a loadable module by any chance. Try modprobe ntfs Also try "mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/captive-noname ro".

[DMR]

Originally posted by fatTrav
any distro that is recent will work. I don't know about Red Hat 9 though. Unfortunatley, recent stock RH and Fedora kernels do not support NTFS out of the box. More on the whole issue and what to do about it here:

http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=fedora+ntfs+kernel+support&btnG=Google+Search

[linuxbrain]

It is an installable module and I just installed it and it works fine.

Thanks for all of the help.

[DMR]

Originally posted by linuxbrain
It is an installable module and I just installed it and it works fine. Yup- it is, and it should work just fine. Glad it did. :)

[elyserva]

Originally posted by RedHat123
i need to pull over my data from a disk that is formatted in ntfs (formerly running win2kpro)

just wondering which distro should work right away without re-compiling the kernel etc...

i think today, im going to pick up either suse 9.1 personal or the book redhat 9 bible" that has cd's in the back.

im just too lazy to build my own installation, besides my workstation with the cd burner is ka-poot, neither of my other pc's have burners....
If you just want to pull data out of an old HD, use live distros (e.g. Knoppix). That way you don't have to install anything.