I just moved from Ubuntu where my Windows files (I dual-boot) were automatically mounted. How do you do that in openSUSE?
Have a look here Linux HOWTOs and Tutorials: Suse Linux 10.0, 10.1 openSUSE 10.2, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1 for some good how-to’s
Andy
At the risk of stating the obvious, did you look under /windows to see if your Windows drivers are mounted there ? Typically openSUSE KDE does NOT show your mounted windows drives on your desktop, but they are typically auto mounted under /windows as /windows/C and /windows/D … etc …
If you still can not find your drives, and if you have no success with the Linux provided by deltaflyer44, then please post here the output of running the following one at a time in a gnome terminal or a kde konsole:
cat /etc/fstab
df -Th
su -c ‘fdisk -l’ (enter root password for the last command).
Also let us know what partition/drive in the above output, that you can not see under openSUSE.
There is a folder named “windows” and it contains a “C” drive. But it is empty.
OK, then provide output of:
cat /etc/fstab
df -Th
su -c ‘fdisk -l’ (enter root password for the last command).
Here is the results of the ‘cat’ command:
jrmd@linux-neih:~$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST980811AS_5LYAFAPV-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST980811AS_5LYAFAPV-part6 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST980811AS_5LYAFAPV-part7 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST980811AS_5LYAFAPV-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 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
jrmd@linux-neih:~$ df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 ext3 8.8G 2.4G 6.0G 28% /
udev tmpfs 1008M 184K 1007M 1% /dev
/dev/sda7 ext3 13G 771M 11G 7% /home
jrmd@linux-neih:~$ su -c ‘fdisk -l’
The output of the last command:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x41ab2316
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 6670 53571584 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 6671 9729 24571417+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6671 6932 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 6933 8092 9317668+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 8093 9729 13149171 83 Linux
… from what I can see you should have read access (but probably not write access) to the MS-Windows NTFS drive. Its quite likely either (a) your NTFS drive is “dirty”, and maybe (b) you put Windows in a standby/hibernate mode, but did not shut down. So boot to windows, and run the appropriate “chkdsk” command under MS-Windows (I do not know the options, some one else will need to chime in) to clean up the MS-Windows disk, and then shut down properly.
Note Linux will refuse to mount a “dirty” drive, and it will also refuse to give write access to a drive if Windows is closed into a hibernate/standby mode.
After cleaning up the “dirty” drive, to get read and write access, you will need to change:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST980811AS_5LYAFAPV-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
to
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST980811AS_5LYAFAPV-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g user,users,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
Note I propose changing the fmask (from 133 to 113) and the dmask (from 022 to 002). I also propose adding a “user” in front of the “users”.
Reference for that is here:
NTFS - openSUSE
The cause was Windows’ behaviour: When pressing the power-off button, it would hibernate the computer (not shut it down). Changed the setting in Windows, rebooted in OpenSUSE and found my windows/c folder populated.
THANK YOU!
Michel