Can NTFS r/w support be built into the initrd?

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Jul 29 20:42:22 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 14:56 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I'm trying to get to some files on an NTFS partition at boot time and
> tried searching all over google with very limited success. It seems
> the ntfs.ko module does not support read/write well and the ntfs-3g
> module uses fuse.

The only reason you should need to have this in the initrd is if you're
booting / off ntfs-3g, which I would strongly discourage. Can you
explain exactly why you need this?

Thanks,

~spot (ntfs-3g Fedora maintainer)




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