On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 10:57:44PM -0500, Sreekumar Kodakara wrote: > > Hi > > I have partioned my hard disk and have made my system dual boot with Win > > Xp in one partion and RH 7.3 in another. I would like to read XP partition > > from linux. I tried adding an entry in /etc/fstab with hpfs as the > ^^^^ > ntfs > But you might need to recompile your kernel as RedHat probably does not > offer NTFS out of the box. But from pure source! The kernel-source RedHat provides has a broken NTFS module. Attempting any I/O (including a directory listing) on the NTFS volume will result in a hard system lock. I learned this the annoying way this week. I didn't feel like compiling a kernel *again*, so I just did a quick Mandrake install on a spare drive and that worked fine. In this case I was attempting to recover data from a hosed NTFS drive. It wouldn't boot, another Win2K box couldn't read it (said the drive was unformatted -- uh-oh!), but linux-ntfs got the data back. URL explaining the RedHat/NTFS problem: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/index.html#3.13 Hope this saves people some time. ;) Jima