Mounting Windows

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#1

HI Guys,

Fairly new to the forums. I just wanted to know if there is a way to mount windows partitions in Opensuse 11.1 GNOME. In fedora 9, i was able to mount NTFS partions quite easily by default. All i had to do was to add myself to the root group. Not so simple here. Plus, i can’t mount my flash drive :frowning:

Can you guys help me out? (please i ask for no quarelling. I know soo many people have this already but I don’t see how to do it properly.)

Hopefully, this could be a sticky

#2

Did you try Yast>Partitioner?

#3

sabbyman wrote:
> Fairly new to the forums. I just wanted to know if there is a way to
> mount windows partitions in Opensuse 11.1 GNOME.

http://en.opensuse.org/NTFS

> In fedora 9, i was able
> to mount NTFS partions quite easily by default. All i had to do was to
> add myself to the root group. Not so simple here. Plus, i can’t mount my
> flash drive :frowning:

Not required in either fedora or openSUSE.

Kind regards,
Andreas Stieger

#4

Thanks, I will try it when i get home.:slight_smile:

#5

Umm, i’m not sure what you mean by using the partioner in yast??

#6

You can use it also for creating and managing mount points.

#7

If you enter the Partitioner in Yast, READ READ READ, and you will see the Windows partition, but no mountpoint. Click the partition, pick Edit, and add /windows/C as mountpoint. Click OK OK OK, and you will see your Windows partition.

#8

OK, i saw the mounts in partioner. The thing is, the drive is already mounted. I can see the information and read it fine. but its not r/w.

I’m trying to use the help found on the link above.

#9

I got it. thanks AndreasStieger for the links above.

i just changed fstab options and rebooted. it worked like a charm.

i guess for those who don’t how: *vi /etc/fstab *. Then modify the options. if u are unfamilar with vi, you have to press ‘i’ to insert and press ‘esc’ when you are done. to save the changes type ‘:wq’.

Thanks again :D**