I have problems to access a hard disk after upgrading from 42.1 to 42.2

I have a computer with dual boot and three hard disks: one for openSUSE (ext4), one for Windows 7 (ntfs) and one for backup (ext4).

Before an upgrade from 42.1 to 42.2 I had access to all three disks which were mounted on /run/media/berredo (my user name). To access the disks windows and backup (was ntfs then) I used Dolphin and was asked for the root password. After typing the root password I could also use shell scripts in my user terminal with sudo (these scripts are in my bin directory).

After the upgrade the openSUSE and backup disks are mounted like before and I have access to them the same way as before, but the windows disk is now mounted on /run/media/root. The only way I figure out to run my backup script is:

  • creating a link of /run/media/root/windows in /run/media/berredo;
  • starting the root terminal
  • change to my bin directory (/home/berredo/bin)
  • and executing the script: ./my_script

I am curious about this difficulty to access a directory whose permissions are:


boblin:/run/media/root # ls -l
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 May 25 16:14 windows

I should have succeeded accessing the windows disk (or not?..).

The output of fdisk -l is:


Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00011111

Device     Boot Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1        2048 1953525167 1953523120 931.5G 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: E14551A5-767A-4056-9348-845FD2B9FE0B

Device       Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sdc1     2048      16383      14336     7M BIOS boot
/dev/sdc2    16384    4225023    4208640     2G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sdc3  4225024 1953523711 1949298688 929.5G Microsoft basic data

Disk /dev/sdb: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x477cc937

Device     Boot  Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1  *      2048     206847     204800   100M  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2       206848 1953521663 1953314816 931.4G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

With the df -h command I can only see the windows disk using the root terminal:


Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs        7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs           7.8G  208K  7.8G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           7.8G  2.6M  7.8G   1% /run
tmpfs           7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdc3       915G  462G  453G  51% /
tmpfs           1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/481
tmpfs           1.6G   12K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda1       917G  564G  308G  65% /run/media/berredo/backup
/dev/sdb2       932G  260G  672G  28% /run/media/root/windows

Is there a way to change the mount directory and configure the access to the windows disk as before? (editing fstab?)

Thanks for Your help!

Dear friends,

I must apologize for a big mistake I have done by sending the previous question.

Reviewing all my procedures I discovered my stupidity: I had forgotten that the windows disk was first mounted as root. That is the reason why I was asked for the root password.

Sorry for taking the time of the 68 people who read all that stuff.

I promise I will not be so silly again.