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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:07:32 -0500
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>
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To: "kave p.Ram" <kave_ram@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: mounting NTFS
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"kave p.Ram" wrote:

> yes . I do it as root. but i wonder if GENERIC Kernel
> has support for mounting NTFS by default, or does it
> require building a custom Kernel with this feature on
> (as documented in LINT) for accessing NTFS partitions.

Good point, a quick check shows that NTFS support is NOT compiled into
the generic kernel (review /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC) but I had
thought it would load as a KLD. (I could be wrong)
Probably try compiling a new kernel with NTFS support.

-Bill


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