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This thread raises an interesting question for a Fedora 3/4 newbie.
It is that installing Fedora 3 ~won't~ recognize a secondary FAT32 or NTFS
drive ? IE: Fresh install of Fedora 3 onto hda1, then FAT32 or NTFS data
on hda2 or hdb1. . . is inhibited until the drive is recognized ?
And that recognition of that drive is not going to happen until some FAT32
package is loaded ?
Or, heaven forbid, that a new kernel is required to read a secondary NTFS
drive ? [I think its that a new Fedora NTFS kernel is required only if the
Fedora system is resdiding on the NTFS drive ?]
Comments by anyone knowledgeable would be very interesting
IE: Is Fedora 4 recommended, for recognizing other drives with alternate
file system, over Fedora 3 ?
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| Lenard 2005-12-04, 7:48 am |
| Adam wrote:
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> This thread raises an interesting question for a Fedora 3/4 newbie.
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> It is that installing Fedora 3 ~won't~ recognize a secondary FAT32 or NTFS
> drive ? IE: Fresh install of Fedora 3 onto hda1, then FAT32 or NTFS
> data on hda2 or hdb1. . . is inhibited until the drive is recognized ?
The drive(s) are recognized and any FAT32 partitions are also, however
Fedora/Red Hat does not handle any NTFS partitions by design choice. The
partition information is available but you cannot access any of the NTFS
partition(s) information (the data or files).
> And that recognition of that drive is not going to happen until some FAT32
> package is loaded ?
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> Or, heaven forbid, that a new kernel is required to read a secondary NTFS
> drive ? [I think its that a new Fedora NTFS kernel is required only if
> the Fedora system is resdiding on the NTFS drive ?]
Fedora does not reside on any Microsoft filesystems, the default filesystem
is ext2/3. You might want to review this;
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.html
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"A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours,
Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over."
Andrew Moss, Microsoft's senior director of technical policy, 2005
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| Understood, now. Thanks Lenard.
And it seems a module is available to at least ~read~ NTFS, at;
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#ntfs
> The drive(s) are recognized and any FAT32 partitions are also, however
> Fedora/Red Hat does not handle any NTFS partitions by design choice. The
> partition information is available but you cannot access any of the NTFS
> partition(s) information (the data or files).
>
[ .. .]
>
> Fedora does not reside on any Microsoft filesystems, the default
> filesystem is ext2/3. You might want to review this;
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> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.html
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