Hack 89 Access NTFS Files from Other Operating Systems  
Read files on
an NTFS partition from a non-NTFS operating system with these free
tools. The
folks at Sysinternals have created a
series of utilities that allow us to access files and program in NTFS
partitions from non-NTFS operating systems. Two of them, NTFSDOS and
NTFSWIN98, are free to download from http://www.sysinternals.com. NTFSDOS is
intended for use under DOS, Windows 3.1, and Windows 95, and
NTFSWIN98 is used for Windows 98 and Me. To access files on an NTFS
volume, you'll need a user account and password to
access any secured NTFS partitions, but you won't
have to boot up the entire NT/2000 or XP operating system to do it. If you require write access to files in an NTFS
partition, you will need to purchase professional versions of these
programs or Sysinternal's
Administrator's Pak. You can access
NTFS from most current versions of Linux simply by mounting the NTFS
filesystem as root (the -o ro
option specifies read-only mode): #
mount -o ro /dev/hda1 /mnt # mount
| grep ntfs /dev/hda1 on /mnt type ntfs (ro) debian:~#
ls -l /mnt/boot.ini -r-------- 1 root root 230
Aug 8 17:32 /mnt/boot.ini
In some cases, you
may need to load the NTFS module first: #
modprobe -v ntfs insmod
/lib/modules/2.6.6-local/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko
If the NTFS module is unavailable (you'll see
the error message "FATAL: Module ntfs not
found"), you'll need to obtain a
newer kernel or download (see http://www.kernel.org), compile, and install
one, making sure that the NTFS module is enabled.  |
NTFS
support is generally limited to read-only access. NTFS write support
under most kernels is experimental, but the 2.6 kernel series
supports limited write access to NTFS. |
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