Is there anyway to get a 2 terabyte NTFS partition mounted in Suse Linux?
Would be better to just mount if possible so I could use the storage for both my Linux and windows pcs.
Help appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill Perrotta
Is there anyway to get a 2 terabyte NTFS partition mounted in Suse Linux?
Would be better to just mount if possible so I could use the storage for both my Linux and windows pcs.
Help appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill Perrotta
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:26:03 +0000, bperrotta wrote:
> Is there anyway to get a 2 terabyte NTFS partition mounted in Suse
> Linux?
>
> Would be better to just mount if possible so I could use the storage for
> both my Linux and windows pcs.
>
> Help appreciated.
Make sure you’ve got ntfs-3g installed, and then you should be able to
mount it.
Jim
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Is there anyway to get a 2 terabyte NTFS partition mounted in Suse Linux?
Would be better to just mount if possible so I could use the storage for both my Linux and windows pcs.
Help appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill Perrotta
So what you depends on if you intend on leaving it connected all of the time. If you just plug it in running, it should mount, but would be located at /media/volume_label. To select where it should be mounted, it needs to be added to your fstab file. You can do this automatically by running the YaST Partitioner:
YaST (Enter Root Password) / System / Partitioner and the highlight the partition name. I don’t know your setup, but if you had just two hard drives, one internal and one external the USB drive would be called /dev/sdb and the partition might be called /dev/sdb1 for the first partition on the second hard drive. You would select sdb1, or what ever its name might be and then right click your mouse and select edit. In the partition edit window, you want to select a mount point which you can name from the root partition. Likely names might be /windows/C or /windows/D or /Windows or /Software or what ever you want to use. Lets say you decide to use /Software. You just select the bullet for the mount point, enter /Software and press OK and then OK again. This will cause the folder /Software to be created and a mount instruction to be added to your /etc/fstab file and then the drive will be immediate mounted for you, without doing a reboot. Now, I normally then modify the fstab entry to change the load options to just say defaults and nothing else. To edit this file in KDE you would do an Alt-F2 (or menu Run Command) and enter:
kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab
You can compare your entry where it includes the name /Software or what ever name you selected. You will not modify any other entries:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31000528AS_9VP1AEZJ-part1 /Software ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
Now this is an entry from my PC which will be different from yours. However notice the name /Software as I suggest to you, it says ntfs-3g, so we know it is a Windows NTFS partit8ion and then notice I just use the option of defaults. This will be much shorter than what you find in your file. Just reduce the many options to just say defaults, save the file and reboot and now you will have full read and write ability with your NTFS drive.
Thank You,