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