Ntfs Partation!

[cnnaing]

how can i see other NTFS partation from Linux Enterprise? I do not find my sound card driver (Intel Corp 82801AA AC'97 Audio) for linux Enterprise. pls....

[raro]

as far a I know Linux and NTFS doesn't mix. Try to reformat with partition magic or something similar. Don't forget to back up!

[cnnaing]

as far a I know Linux and NTFS doesn't mix. Try to reformat with partition magic or something similar. Don't forget to back up!

FAT32 ?

[Tywais]

how can i see other NTFS partation from Linux Enterprise? I do not find my sound card driver (Intel Corp 82801AA AC'97 Audio) for linux Enterprise. pls....

From the linux man files (man mount)

mount -t vfstype

The argument following the -t is used to indicate the file system type. The

file system types which are currently supported are: adfs, affs, autofs,

coda, coherent, cramfs, devpts, efs, ext, ext2, ext3, hfs, hpfs, iso9660,

jfs, minix, msdos, ncpfs, nfs, ntfs, proc, qnx4, ramfs, reiserfs, romfs,

smbfs, sysv, tmpfs, udf, ufs, umsdos, vfat, xenix, xfs, xiafs. Note that

coherent, sysv and xenix are equivalent and that xenix and coherent will be

removed at some point in the future -- use sysv instead. Since kernel ver-

sion 2.1.21 the types ext and xiafs do not exist anymore.

FAT32 would be msdos (or possibly vfat)

However I'm still not sure what you are trying to do. The native filesystem for linux is ext2/3 and now jfs (journal file system)

If you are not sure what you are doing don't do the following but it will tell you all partitions you have and what type.

Run "fdisk /dev/hda" or if another disk type then hda use it.

select "p" and you will have all the partitions and what type.

hit "q" to quit

Edited March 1, 2006 by tywais

[Wallalai]

Your soundcard should use the "snd-intel8x0" module. You can see if the module is loaded with the "lsmod" command. The command to load a module is "modprobe". As you don't give any precision of your sound system (OSS, ALSA) it's difficult to help more.

A more recent distro (Fedora) should have a better hardware recoignition.

You can read a NTFS partition by mounting it in a folder on your Linux system.

An example, open a term (console) and as root:

1. Create a folder where to mount your NTFS partition:

#mkdir /mnt/ntfs

2. Mount your NTFS partition in this folder admitting your partition is the first one of the first ATA disk (/dev/hda1):

#mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs

mount -t vfat /dev/.... for a FAT32 partition

3. Now you can browse the content of the mounted partition with a file browser or simplier directly in the console

#ls -al /mnt/ntfs

Don't (DON'T) try to write on the NTFS partition from Linux as the NTFS support is experiemental and can corrupt your filesystem, but you can read it . FAT32 is read-write supported from Linux.

Don't forget to umount the partition when finished:

#umount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs

Maybe can help: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/

For info, sound modules loaded in my distro for sound support:

[19:20][alain@moobaan ~]$ hwdetect --show-sound
SOUND  : snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss snd-seq-device snd-seq snd-seq-midi-event snd snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd-mpu401 snd-mpu401-uart snd-ac97-bus snd-ac97-codec snd-intel8x0 soundcore

Edited March 1, 2006 by Wallalai

[benthai98]

The best way to get around these disk problems is to set up a share disk in Fat 32. Use your linux machine to create a fat32 partition (as windows can only format up to 20gb I think it is) then you can store stuff on that and have it accessible from windows, mac and linux installs.

Alot of people end up using this approach for dual boot machines al. In theory set up three partitions (i know the linux one itself is more than three but i mean three sections) which will be one for windows install (NTFS), one for linux install (EXT) and a third for sharing (Fat 32).

This way all of your data (stored on teh fat 32 drive) will be able to be written to and read by both OS's.

[Wallalai]

Another option to share partitions between Windows and Linux is Explore2fs, a graphical file manager allowing drag and drop from ext2 and ext3 Linux partitions.