Can't mount Windows drive under linux?

[jgomez]

Greetings. Currently doing some small scale testing of the Windows-based AoE initiator. I've compiled the latest Linux kernel driver from http://support.coraid.com/support/linux/aoe6-77.tar.gz on my Arch Linux machine.

Was able to add the following to /etc/rc.local:

/sbin/modprobe aoe
/usr/sbin/vbladed 0 1 eth0 /dev/sdb1

/dev/sdb1 was a ext4 formatted partition but under Windows I formatted as a NTFS drive. Any reason I can't mount it under linux? I used:

mount -r -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /aoe but it came back with the error message of wrong fs type, bad superblock, bad option on /dev/sdb1.

Thanks for the help!

[anton (staff)]

I don't see this as being anything related to AoE in general and our AoE initiator in particular... Try to grab any NTFS formatted disk image from the system you use and try to mount it under Linux. If you'd fail - it's something with your Linux NTFS implementation and you should definitely ask in some other place where Linux people gather to talk.