mounting ntfs hard drive hdb

[John Seth]

You can use 'mount' at any time, whether the drive you want mounted is 
in /etc/fstab or not.  /etc/fstab is only for mounting drives 
automatically on bootup of your linux system, and to unmount a drive, 
you do not need to restart, just use 'umount'.  If it gives you an error 
trying to unmount a hard drive/partition, then you probably are either 
in it (like having done 'cd /home/user' and trying to unmount /home), or 
another program is accessing that directory/device.

As far as NTFS, distro's vary on that issue with stock kernels. If your 
system utilizes the latest 2.6.x kernels, they might have had the NTFS 
read/write ability compiled in.  Some distro's disable NTFS writing, but 
allow reading from it, especially with the 2.4.x and lower kernels. 
Again, it depends on whether you are using a stock kernel from your 
distro and what they have compiled into it (or as a module) or if you 
compiled your own, whether you enabled NTFS read/write abilities.

I hope that helps... Your best bet is to read the manual for mount & 
umount ('man mount') so you can properly mount and unmount devices.  The 
NTFS issue depends on what you're running.

   - Tony


ebenoit wrote:
> I believe I have to etc/fstab <--configure
> Then I can use mount?
> And would I have to restart my system if the hard drive is already 
> running and attached?
> Does anyone know of any issues mounting and using files within a ntfs 
> file system, I plan on not ever using for windows again ...it just has 
> all my yummy music.
> 
> Thanx,
> eric
> 
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