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NTFS Partitions and Backup
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Posted by: pumbaa70

Anyone find a way to backup using NTFS as I found out the hard way and had to pull out a old 6.4GB with 98 on it and do it after tearing apart my poor PC. ANy help would be apprecaited.

Posted by: Worf

Technically, the Linux kernel *can* mount an NTFS partition. Of course, since Microsoft has at least 3 different versions of NTFS, corresponding to the releases of NT 3.5, NT4, and Win2k (and probably yet another one for WinXP), and since the file format isn't completely documented, the driver "mostly works". The kernel can mount NTFS read only perfectly well. It's only the writing that will cause problems. So yes, you can mount NTFS as a read-write partition, but no one recommends it because it can mess up the data... (hence being extremely experimental...)

Posted by: pumbaa70

how would you mount a NTFS when to do the command mount /mnt/dos???

Thanks
Norman

Posted by: kazymyr

Add the parameter "-t ntfs" to the mount command.

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Posted by: pumbaa70

so what would the full syntax look like just so I am sure I understand???

Thanks
Norman

Posted by: kazymyr

"mount -t ntfs ..." and all the rest.

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Posted by: Worf

Just remember to get a backup of your NTFS drive handy. Being that the writers of the driver itself consider it "dangerous" to mount it read/write, there would be a rather large possibility of data corruption. The FAT/FAT32 stuff was more or less mature, so corruption of those filesystems tends to be rather remote. NTFS isn't.

And the command might need to be modified:

mount -t ntfs -o rw ...

to force the drive to be mounted read-write - the ntfs filesystem driver might automatically mount as readonly otherwise.

Posted by: kazymyr

The "-o rw" won't work with the current boot CD. I have deliberately left out the read-write support at compile time, to avoid all mistakes by users. Better go borrow another drive to make the backup, than be sorry you lost your data on the ntfs partition. http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/smile.gif

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