[ale] mounting NT partition

Pritchard, Kenneth kenneth.pritchard at brite.com
Mon Aug 30 11:38:15 EDT 1999


Is it formatted hpfs or ntfs? If it is ntfs, you can recompile your kernel
with ntfs support and try it again.

Ken


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael Hirsch [SMTP:hirsch at mathcs.emory.edu]
> Sent:	Monday, August 30, 1999 10:19 AM
> To:	ale at ale.org
> Subject:	[ale] mounting NT partition
> 
> I'm trying to mount an NT partition (hpfs format) under redhat 6.0.
> It is running the original 2.2.5 kernel.  When I try to mount it with 
>         mount -t hpfs /dev/hda7 /mnt/mnt
> it fails with a generic filesystem busy or bad superblock message, and
> /var/log/messages says: 
>         Aug 30 09:46:23 carrot kernel: HPFS: hpfs_read_super: Not HPFS 
> 
> If I try to mount it with linuxconf, I get more message, but the sasme
> failure (though linuxconf says the mount succeeds):
>         09:52:22 carrot modprobe: can't locate module block-major-8
>         Aug 30 09:52:23 carrot last message repeated 7 times
>         Aug 30 09:52:23 carrot modprobe: can't locate module
> block-major-48
>         Aug 30 09:52:23 carrot last message repeated 7 times
>         Aug 30 09:52:23 carrot modprobe: can't locate module
> block-major-72
>         Aug 30 09:52:24 carrot last message repeated 7 times
>         Aug 30 09:55:37 carrot kernel: HPFS: hpfs_read_super: Not HPFS 
> 
> lsmod shows that the hpfs module is loaded.  I don't know what those
> other modules are for.
> 
> Surely, one of y'all have solved this problem and can tell me what
> stupid thing I'm forgetting.
> 
> Thanks,
>  
> --Michael






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