[ale] mounting ntfs

[John Wells]

Dow,

This is NTFS, not NFS.  In other words, it's a NT/2k
partition on a local drive.  I have RH dual booting
with Win2k.

When I attempt to ls, it locks up everything.  No
ctrl+c's, ctrl + \, nothing.

Thanks,

John

--- Dow Hurst <dhurst at kennesaw.edu> wrote:
> I know that when you lose a network connection for a
> NFS mount then the
> "ls" command will not complete due to the timeout. 
> Can you Cntrl-C out
> of the ls or does the shell stay frozen?
> Dow
> 
> John Wells wrote:
> > 
> > I recompiled the latest kernel from RH
> (2.4.9-31...the
> > one that remedies the zlib probs) to support
> reading
> > ntfs partitions.
> > 
> > Now, I can mount the partition with "mount -r -t
> ntfs
> > /dev/hda1 /mnt/win2k' and it seems to work fine.
> > However, when I cd into the directory and do an
> > ls...everything freezes.  Only option is to hit
> the
> > reset switch.  I've verified that ntfs.o is there
> and
> > loaded.  Can anyone help?
> > 
> > Here's the output from fdisk -l and mount (after
> > mounting the partition).  Note that mount seem to
> > recognize it...
> > 
> > $ fdisk -l
> > 
> >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id
> > System
> > /dev/hda1   *         1       607   4875696    7
> > HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/hda2           608      1215   4883760    f
> > Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > /dev/hda5           608       613     48163+  83
> > Linux
> > /dev/hda6           614      1149   4305388+  83
> > Linux
> > /dev/hda7          1150      1215    530113+  82
> > Linux swap
> > 
> > $ mount
> > 
> > /dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw)
> > none on /proc type proc (rw)
> > usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
> > /dev/hda5 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> > none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> > /dev/hda1 on /mnt/win2k type ntfs (ro)
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > John
> > 
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