I recently had a NTFS volume go bad, so I thought easy to fix: Get the latest Knoppix, boot it from CD, and copy my shit off. Knoppix has had NTFS read support at least for quite some time.

Wrong.. gave me a hassle, errors, and couldn’t get the volume mounted. Then I decided I’ll update my SXCE to b121.. use some NTFS utilities on there. Had more progress (some NTFS utilities) but surprised that still no NTFS read support. So a quick search on blogs.sun.com for NTFS revealed these simple steps:


# wget http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/FSWpart.tar.gz
# wget http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/FSWfsmisc.tar.gz


Untar them, pkgadd them, and you are done. Then simply:


# mount -F ntfs /dev/dsk/c0d0pX /mnt


And nice command to view partitions:

# prtpart /dev/rdisk/c0d0p0 -ldevs


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