Hdd Not Apearing

hello,

ok so i have never used any other os than windows before. I have been wanting to use linux for some time now. so far i think its absolutly brilliant.

right now however i can't see my other two sata hdd. one has windows installed on it and the other just has music, movies and etc.

many thanks

gisler

hello,

ok so i have never used any other os than windows before. I have been wanting to use linux for some time now. so far i think its absolutly brilliant.

right now however i can't see my other two sata hdd. one has windows installed on it and the other just has music, movies and etc.

many thanks

gisler
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In most cases SUSE detects and mounts windows partitions in /windows automatically. However, in case it hasnt done so you have to edit /etc/fstab. You can view the man page for complete details.

sorry i can't seem to fine the page that explains how to do it. if you could give me a url that would be much apreciated.

many thanks

gisler

For a beginner the man page might be a bit confusing actually. Just so you know gisler, from a console/terminal type "man fstab" (without the quotes obviously) to read the man page on fstab. As a note, almost everything in linux has a man page so trying "man some_command" will usually be helpful. Also, if you don't have the man pages for some reason you can type the exact same thing into google and it will almost always return links to online versions of the man pages.

I would recommend this introduction (http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html) and the Wikipedia entry on fstab as places to try first.

Finally, the fstab file is at /etc/fstab. To edit it you need to be root or use sudo.

sorry i can't seem to fine the page that explains how to do it. if you could give me a url that would be much apreciated.

many thanks

gisler
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Tell me the contents of /mnt. May be I can understand the situation better and suggest ways to do it.