I just got opensuse 11.1 installed. I dualboot windows xp with it. Everything is up and running including playing mp3 songs and accessing the net with my dataone modem. I could not figure out how to access the windows partitions from linux. In mandriva I could go to storage devices and get into them.
Ravi
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This is probably the wrong forum. Check the .applications forum or
search all the forums. There are a lot of posts about mounting windows
volumes and it may already be mounted… check for a /windows directory
on your box.
Good luck.
prabharathi wrote:
> I just got opensuse 11.1 installed. I dualboot windows xp with it.
> Everything is up and running including playing mp3 songs and accessing
> the net with my dataone modem. I could not figure out how to access the
> windows partitions from linux. In mandriva I could go to storage
> devices and get into them.
> Ravi
>
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Hi prabharathi, welcome to the forums. I moved your post as ab suggested.
In Gnome you might see them in Nautilus → Computer or KDE in the “My Computer” icon on the Desktop.
Failing that, this might help: Normally the installation program mounts the windows partitions permanently bu including a line for each windows partition in the file fstab located at /etc/fstab. Then they show up in (usually) the directories /windows/C, /windows/D and so on. Have a cruise to that location in Nautilus or Dolphin file browser and have a look.
Failing that, open a console window and execute these two commands and use copy/paste to return back here the dialogue you get in the console window:
- sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
- cat /etc/fstab
Since I have the same Problem as prabharathi, I am enclosing the results of the two commands mentioned by swerdna:
sxg2:~> sudo /sbin/fdisk -
Platte /dev/sda: 500.1 GByte, 500107862016 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 60801 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000001Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 1 20398 163840288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 endet nicht an einer Zylindergrenze.
/dev/sda2 20398 34951 116903556+ f W95 Erw. (LBA)
Partition 2 endet nicht an einer Zylindergrenze.
/dev/sda3 34952 35449 4000185 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 * 35450 60801 203639940 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 20398 24342 31683928+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 27988 31268 26354601 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 31269 34951 29583666 83 Linux
sxg2:~> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD502IJ_S13TJ90QB26111-part3 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=bbfee926-57e1-4e54-a6bd-c630c7ad06be / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
UUID=fd8c62e5-98ed-4ef0-91ad-e0936f7741d3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
UUID=6ff8bc95-7937-421e-b679-560f4e6c3c4a /var ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
The windows/C and windows/D partitions can#t be accessed and lead to error in Dolphin as follows:
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed auth_admin_keep_always<–(action-result)
There is apparantly some problem with cylinder boundries on partition 1&2. How can these be fixed? Would that solve the problem. Both boots (XP and Linux) are presently functioning without any hitches, except for access to windows/c & /D.
Since /windows/c and d are problematic I suggest to ignore them and make two new directories /mnt/sda5 and /mnt/sda1. Then put these two lines in fstab:
/dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
The cylinder boundary problem might continue – try it out and see.
Thanks swerdna! sda5 is now available. I wonder, how and where the boundry problem would be hitting me. Partitioning was done using windows-tool like partition-magic before installation of openSUSE. Since installation, that tool wouldn’t even start. Any suggestions?
I have a similar question. I have my FAT32 partitions mounted in OpenSUSE KDE 11.1, and I can view them in the “My Computer” option under the main desktop. However, applications like Amarok or the Open Office apps can not seem to access these drives. For instance, when I try to scan my files in Amarok, all I can scan is root ("/") and its subdirectories – not the FAT32 partitions. And I can not find a way to get the software to look at the other partitions. Forgive the stupid newbie question, but how can I get the software to access these drives? Many thanks!
Hi prabharathi, welcome to the forums. I moved your post as ab
suggested.
In Gnome you might see them in Nautilus → Computer or KDE in the “My
Computer” icon on the Desktop.
Failing that, this might help: Normally the installation program mounts
the windows partitions permanently bu including a line for each windows
partition in the file fstab located at /etc/fstab. Then they show up in
(usually) the directories /windows/C, /windows/D and so on. Have a
cruise to that location in Nautilus or Dolphin file browser and have a
look.
Failing that, open a console window and execute these two commands and
use copy/paste to return back here the dialogue you get in the console
window:
- sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
- cat /etc/fstab
–
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Since I have the same Problem as prabharathi, I am enclosing the results
of the two commands mentioned by swerdna:
> sxg2:~> sudo /sbin/fdisk -
> Platte /dev/sda: 500.1 GByte, 500107862016 Byte
> 255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 60801 Zylinder
> Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000001
>
> Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
> /dev/sda1 1 20398 163840288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> Partition 1 endet nicht an einer Zylindergrenze.
> /dev/sda2 20398 34951 116903556+ f W95 Erw. (LBA)
> Partition 2 endet nicht an einer Zylindergrenze.
> /dev/sda3 34952 35449 4000185 82 Linux Swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda4 * 35450 60801 203639940 83 Linux
> /dev/sda5 20398 24342 31683928+ b W95 FAT32
> /dev/sda6 27988 31268 26354601 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7 31269 34951 29583666 83 Linux
> sxg2:~> cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD502IJ_S13TJ90QB26111-part3 swap
> swap defaults 0 0
> UUID=bbfee926-57e1-4e54-a6bd-c630c7ad06be / ext3
> acl,user_xattr 1 1
> UUID=fd8c62e5-98ed-4ef0-91ad-e0936f7741d3 /home ext3
> acl,user_xattr 1 2
> UUID=6ff8bc95-7937-421e-b679-560f4e6c3c4a /var ext3
> acl,user_xattr 1 2
> proc /proc proc defaults
> 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs noauto
> 0 0
> debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto
> 0 0
> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto
> 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5
> 0 0
The windows/C and windows/D partitions can#t be accessed and lead to
error in Dolphin as follows:
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy:
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed
auth_admin_keep_always<–(action-result)
There is apparantly some problem with cylinder boundries on partition
1&2. How can these be fixed? Would that solve the problem. Both boots
(XP and Linux) are presently functioning without any hitches, except for
access to windows/c & /D.
–
husimon
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Since /windows/c and d are problematic I suggest to ignore them and make
two new directories /mnt/sda5 and /mnt/sda1. Then put these two lines in
fstab:
/dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true
0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
The cylinder boundary problem might continue – try it out and see.
–
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Thanks swerdna! sda5 is now available. I wonder, how and where the
boundry problem would be hitting me. Partitioning was done using
windows-tool like partition-magic before installation of openSUSE. Since
installation, that tool wouldn’t even start. Any suggestions?
–
husimon
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