Hi all,
I installed opensuse 11 shortly after its release. (Gnome version). The most annoying thing is that no matter what i tried I could not find or open the windows xp ntfs partitions. XP works fine so now after 2-3 months I decided to get back to suse. PLEASE some one tell me how to access the windows partition. Thank you very much
Although this may seem like a huge problem to a beginner, it’s actually quite simple; nothing that can’t be resolved in thirty minutes by just posting a concise, to-the-point question on the right SuSE subforum. Also, pay heed to what the install process has to say: you will be asked at some point to confirm the location of your Windows mount – if you write it down, you won’t have trouble finding it afterwards… If I may venture a suggestion, though: next time, try KDE 3.x, as it is arguably more “intuitive” and familiar for a person of Windows provenience; in addition, it is vastly more configurable than Gnome. Under no circumstance choose KDE 4.x!!!
If I’m not mistaken, the installation will now optionally create mount points for the ntfs partitions in /etc/fstab under a new subdirectory named /windows, i.e., /windows/c, etc.
This actually worked except when I tried to save the fstab it says “you do not have the permissions necessary to save the file.”. So how do I overcome that? Also this is the line I added
dev/sda1 /windows/c defaults 0 0
Use file manager superuser mode
or in a console
kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab
or in gnome
gnomesu gedit /etc/fstab
That line is missing the file system type (and a / before dev). It should be:
/dev/sda1 /windows/c ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
I’m really sorry for not having replied for sooo looonnng. I still couldn’t boot the ntfs partitions. This is how my fstab looks like. Please help, thanks
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD600VE-75H_WD-WXE806313060-part6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD600VE-75H_WD-WXE806313060-part5 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD600VE-75H_WD-WXE806313060-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0022 0 0
/dev/sda2 /windows/D ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
Ok which line did you add
I’m guessing this one:
/dev/sda2 /windows/D ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
Verify the section: /windows/D
Are you sure this is correct??
Earlier you refer to /windows/C
ALSO:
If you have added this mount point is this folder IN your tree??
The format /windows/D is not a normal folder name
or do you actually have a folder in your tree /windows - and then a folder in there /D??
Normally I would say create a folder in the root
/windows
or
/windows C
so your fstab would be:
/dev/sda2 /windows C ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
Is it C or D? Replace as correct. remember to re-boot after
I did as you said and replaced the old line with “/dev/sda2 /windows D ntfs-3g defaults 0 0”
That said, I have 2 windows partitions. C and D as sda1 and sda2. So after I saved fstab. I went back to /media and I still could not find any options to mount???
Any ideas?
Incidentally when I was trying Kubuntu 8.10. I could mount and access files from both the partitions. So they work with linux.
PS Opensuse is better
But do you have a folder in your tree
name:
windows D
of course the path is /windows D
I’m not understanding you here. when you say folder in tree, do you mean a folder under /. If so no… Sorry, I’m used to ubuntu where it loads under /media
I tried sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /windows/D
it says mount failed: Device maybe busy or resource busy
Just now it loaded. I see /windows/D and C. One last thing, will it stay this way or will I have to do something to keep it working?
can there be shortcuts for a folder in the ntfs partition or the partition itself on the desktop???
It needs to be in your fstab to have it automatically setup at boot.
I’ve been watching this thread, and I think one thing that might make it easier for the users trying to help you, is provide a “current” snap shot summary as to where you are now with your configuration (I know some of this you have done before - its intended to show any changes you may have made).
You could do that by rebooting, and then typing the following in a konsole or gnome-terminal, and pasting here the output:
df -Th
su -c ‘fdisk -l’ #enter root password when prompted
cat /etc/fstab
Follow oldcpu’s advice so we can see where you are.
when you say folder in tree, do you mean a folder under /
YES. Just like /media you refer to.
It’s simple really.
If you just mount sda? to /media it can be confusing if you plug a pen drive in, which will also mount there.
I’ve attached a screenshot of the output for the code details you asked for ](http://www.imagehosting.com/)http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/8249/screenshot2bn4.png
Also below is my current fstab…
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD600VE-75H_WD-WXE806313060-part6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD600VE-75H_WD-WXE806313060-part5 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD600VE-75H_WD-WXE806313060-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g user,users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda2 /windows/D ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0