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Bug 76129

Summary:	cannot mount ntfs file system/s
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <sdarday>
Component:	mount	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Need Real Name 2002-10-17 09:36:32 UTC

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Description of problem:
unable to mount ntfs file system.

Kernel says ntfs is not supported by kernel

We successfuly mounted fat .



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.on dual boot system, red hat 7.1  &  NT 4.0  using ntfs
2.mount /dev/sda1  /mnt/cdrive
3.
	

Actual Results:  message:  ntfs not supported by kernel

Expected Results:  file system mounted

Additional info:

We successfully mounted fat

We tried to mount a partition that did not exist. For that the correst error 
message was displayed.

We triad vfat, but that does not work either.

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2002-10-23 19:34:48 UTC

NTFS is, as you have found, unsupported. This is a concious decision by the kernel team 
due to technical and legal problems.