From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607 Description of problem: kernel-2.4.18-5 has no ntfs modules, however mount-2.11n-12.7.3 was compiled with ntfs support. In consequence, any attempt to autodetect the filesystem type on a partition/disk fails with the error: "mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a ext3 filesystem on a disk partition; 2.mount /dev/partition /mnt/new 3. Actual Results: mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel Expected Results: filesystem type is autodetected as being ext3 and filesystem is mounted. Additional info: The same happens with any filesystem if the type is not specifically mentioned or fstab field is set to "auto".
It's likely that the partition in question was previously an NTFS filesystem, because otherwise mount wouldn't be trying to mount it as ntfs AFAICS. An open bug in e2fsprogs means that the old filesystem's magic may still be there when a new ext[23] filesystem is created. If you have the ability to re-mkfs the partition, do 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/partition count=1' before mkfs -t ext3. Otherwise, specify the filesystem type explicitly.