jarves 0 Posted October 30, 2004 can i readily mount a usb device having a ntfs filesystem??? because inn vfat it is reaily mountable!! Share this post Link to post
Dapper Dan 0 Posted October 30, 2004 Hi jarves. If I'm understanding your enquiry, you are asking if a USB device can be mounted if it has been formatted NTFS? Most all I've seen are vfat and, of course are mountable. I don't really know the answer, but my hunch is yes. How to do it though will have to be relayed by someone else. I'm interested in finding out! Share this post Link to post
danleff 0 Posted October 30, 2004 The ability to mount ntfs volumes depends on the distro that you are running. If you plan to write to the usb stick, and it is formatted ntfs already, I would not do it. Of course, if your distro supports mountng read-only ntfs (or the kernel has support for this), than it should work. If you are already mounting the stick on vfat, then you know that the usb-storage module is being loaded and the stick can be mounted. If you plan on just using the stick for read-only, or copying files from the stick to your linux system, and the dsitro supports reading ntfs volumes, then you would just need to alter fstab to tell it that the usb stick is ntfs and not vfat. What dsitro is this that you are using? Share this post Link to post
