On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:24:34 -0600, Brian Connolly wrote:
I am writing to publicly and broadly thank Richard Russon of the
NTFS
Project (see
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net).
First, for those who duel boot and are looking for a tool to read the
files in the NTFS partition, this fits the bill and is easy to install.
But what I've been most impressed with is how Rich and his colleagues
quickly package up rpms for Fedora's latest kernels. It's a labor of
love and greatly appreciated.
Note that you can rebuild the ntfs module without rebuilding the whole
kernel, using a spec file, a build script and the kernel-source.rpm.
For those in a hurry to upgrade to new kernel.rpms, who need immediate
access to ntfs partitions, this is a great solution.
You need the following files:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/kernel-ntfs.spec
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/build
/path/to/kernel-source-`uname -r`.i386.rpm
Copy all 3 files to the current directory, then type:
./build kernel-ntfs.spec \
kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl.i386.rpm \
`uname -p`
The build process took 2m51s on my ageing P3/1Ghz system.
The rpm is built in a subdirectory of the working dir:
rpm -ivh kernel-ntfs-`uname -r`/kernel-ntfs-`uname -r`.`uname -p`.rpm
I'd also like to add my vote of thanks to Richard and all the NTFS project
contributers.
-
K.