I’m having trouble mounting hard drives and partitions - and am rather nervous about using Yast partitioner to do this. Is there something that would tell me about mount points in Yast partitioner? So far I haven’t been able to find that information anywhere. I don’t want to lose information on existing drives and partitions but do want to be able to access them.
Some of them appear under disk information in “My Computer” but if I try to mount them I get this error message.
There is no application installed that can open files of the type block device (inode/blockdevice).
I was trying to edit fstab, but this didn’t seem straightforward either. I’ve been hacking this about in other Linux distros - so not entirely clueless 
So what is the solution please?
Adding in existing partitions using the Partitioner is really a snap and it does all of the dirty work for you. The number one thing you do not do is to FORMAT an existing partition and by default, no existing partition will have FORMAT set at the default. When you run the program, you will get a warning and that is normal. Read it and and answer OK to continue.
On the Right you will see a list of drives and under each drive will be its partitions. Any partition that is not mounted will not show any mount point in that column. Lets suppose you had a Windows NTFS partition not mounted for you and maybe it shows up as /dev/sdb1 under drive sdb. Highlight sdb1 and right click your mouse and pick edit. The Format command will not be selected by default and leave it that way. Drop down to mount and select the mount bullet and then enter the folder name where you want to the drive to be mounted. For instance, by default, the first Windows drive will be mounted at /windows/C as I remember. If this were the second such drive, you could enter /windows/D if you wanted or perhaps /Software maybe. I would stay away from other folder names that exist in the system though you could mount it in your home folder such as /home/username/windows if you wanted.
After you pick a mount location just say OK. The folder names will be created, the drive will be mounted and an entry will be made for you in your fstab file so the drive comes back in the same place every time. That sounds easy to me.
Thank You,
I have the same problem with the difference, that my partitions are mounted. I can access them from Dolphin, but for some reason I can’t in My Computer. The error message is:There is no application installed that can open files of the type block device (inode/blockdevice).
And when I select Install from the dialog it says that it hasn’t found the program in any of the repositories. What do I need to fix this?
zolistir87, if you use KDE you might try this menu Run Command:
kdesu kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing sysinfo:/
This does the same thing as “My Computer”, but it does it as a root user. If this also has a problem, then I am not sure what is wrong, but if it works, then we know the problem has something to do with permissions.
Thank You,
Nope it didn’t work. I’m still getting the same message.
[QUOTE=jdmcdaniel3;2193725]Adding in existing partitions using the Partitioner is really a snap and it does all of the dirty work for you.
Thank you so much for this. I was scratching around and getting nowhere. This worked perfectly and soooo easy to do. I like simple!! -
[QUOTE=jdmcdaniel3;2193725]Adding in existing partitions using the Partitioner is really a snap and it does all of the dirty work for you.
Thank you so much for this. I was scratching around and getting nowhere. This worked perfectly and soooo easy to do. I like simple!! -
Happy to hear you found that information from last year helpful to you lutchmanb today. And, if you have any other requests for help, just let us know.
Thank You,