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voidmain:
All right, here comes the cavalry. Centurian is back!

Centurian:

quote:Originally posted by void main:
All right, here comes the cavalry. Centurian is back!
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LOL I would not call myself the cavalry. You have always been much better at linux than I ever was.  

Thanks for the welcome.  

Paladin9:
I actually did change the fstab file and it did work (and i said holy shit again) but i still can not get my ntfs partition to work, it is my most imporatant one with most of my shit on it.  When i try to mount it, i get an error saying that "fs type ntfs is not supported by the kernel".  Am i doing it wrong or am i screwed?

voidmain:
The kernel included with most Linux distros does not have NTFS support turned on by default as it is not rock solid (M$ doesn't publish the sort of info needed, common trend). You can recompile your kernel and turn on NTFS support but you'll only want to compile in "read-only" support. You'll want to follow the KERNEL-HOWTO or the instructions on the website of whatever distro you use to reconfigure/recompile the kernel. It's not really that hard but unless you've done it a few times and understand the concepts and the gotchas it can be quite daunting. Search your distro's web site first for a HOWTO on recompiling your kernel.  

Usually there are distro specific patches added to the kernel and it is usually best to get the source from the distro source so you can get it set up with the distro patches and default settings.  Then just go through the configure part (I usually do a "make xconfig" in the source directory) and flip on NTFS support.  But I can't stress enough of going through the docs on this one.  Of course you don't have to use the distro specific setup and you could get the latest kernel source from kernel.org but for a first timer I wouldn't suggest it, and would suggest that you follow your distro's instructions.

[ September 10, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

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