Will it add drive mounting icons or menus? Through much appreciated help here and many frustrating days I never was able to mount my separate XP hard drive. I was forced to remove v 10.0 Gnome which I really liked.
No need to continue the thread on that as I have given up on it.
There should be no issues mounting a separate HD, be it internal/external
Help here:
NTFS: HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11
FAT 32: Suse: HowTo set disk access permissions for Fat32 (VFAT) on a desktop PC
Sorry to read about this. Next time please post here for help before you give up, and provide us the chance to help you.
Thanks for the help links. Wish I had found those before.
I will give it another try if I install 11.1 when available. Sorry but when I spend many hours just trying to get what should be a simple thing like this to work it can be extrememly frustrating to a newbie like me.
Still need very basic help please. I am new at this. Over a week ago I posted a thread about mounting a second internal SATA Windows XP hard drive. Spent several days and many hours applying the suggestions (using YaSTbut they didn’t work out and hung system preparing disk. I eventually gave up and reformatted the Open SUSE 11 drive. Trying once more with installed ver. 11.1 .
I have identified my NTFS partitions with
sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
The drive I wan tto mount is:
/dev/sdb HPFS/NTFS
FSType: NTFS
Label: HP SATA HP
The link provided says,
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To mount your NTFS partition permanently, add your version of the following line into the file system table, fstab. make sure you leave no line spaces, except the last entry must be a blank line. Recommended option for world-writeable mount:
/dev/sda2 /path_to/mount_point ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
When you reboot, the partion will mount into the folder /path_to/mount_point with permissions drwxrwxrwx, i.e with read/write access for everybody, in the style of Microsoft’s insecure filesystems.
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sdb is my indentified drive I want mounted.
beau is my name and my home folder.
I made a folder in home/beau called wd250gbide_xp .
In Gnome Terminal I enter su and password.
Then I enter on one line
/dev/sbd/ home/beau/wd250gbide_xp
Doesn’t work. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
Beau
It’s all here
HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11
eg:
/dev/sda2 /path_to/mount_point ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
your quote: /dev/sbd/ home/beau/wd250gbide_xp
seems incorrect
sdb?1?2
some correction
/dev/sdb1 /home/beau/wd250gbide_xp ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
I’ll try again with sbd1 and post back. Thanks.
Thanks. Yes, you are right. It is sdb1.
I tried:
/dev/sdb1 /home/beau/wd250gbide_xp ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
Returns error:
bash: /dev/sdb1/: not a directory
Post your /etc/fstab
I need to see your editing in there.
Are you aware that Yast Control Center » System » Partitioner allows you to mount disks without typing any commands?
Might safe a lot of frustration simply clicking trough things instead of doing them via the commandline. (Though I’ll admit I do often use a simple text edit to the fstab file to change read/write rights)
In fstab change the fs mount type from noauto to auto
Hello All,
Im having the same problem on mounting i can’t use this HD at all.
Here’s my fstab.
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_STM3802110A_5LSCHFSE-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_STM3802110A_5LSCHFSE-part2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_STM3802110A_5LSCHFSE-part3 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sdb1 /home/diego/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
##/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3120022A_5JT110J0-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
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
Thanks
Give us a clue - Which disc / Partition?
This one.
/dev/sdb1 /home/diego/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
Thanks
Does the folder windows actually exist @ /home/diego/windows
Open a terminal and go su and do:
fdisk -l
post result
Is the sdb1 entry you are having issue with - the same as the one you # out
##/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3120022A_5JT110J0-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.U TF-8 0 0
If so un # it - and change to this:
and # out sdb1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3120022A_5JT110J0-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
But likewise the folder /windows/C must exist in the tree.
I’ve changed the FSTAB as you told but i still can’t see what’s inside the NTFS HD.
I can go to the windows folder but it appear empthy and i didn’t formated it on installation, so the info have to be there.
Here’s the fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa5aa6084
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2874 9729 55070820 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb076b076
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 14593 117218241 7 HPFS/NTFS
Thanks
Using the kdiskfree i got the following error.
Called: mount -tntfs-3g -odefaults /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3120022A_5JT110J0-part1 /home/diego/windows
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0)
Failed to mount ‘/dev/sdb1’: Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action:
Choice 1: If you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by
clicking on the ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ icon in the Windows
taskbar then shutdown Windows cleanly.
Choice 2: If you don’t have Windows then you can use the ‘force’ option for
your own responsibility. For example type on the command line:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /home/diego/windows -o force
Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file:
/dev/sdb1 /home/diego/windows ntfs-3g force 0 0
The windows is not in use and also i remember that there’s a line on be boot manager that points a old broken windows installation on the sdb HD.
But i don’t think that’s the reason … or im wrong ?!
Thanks
Make sure there is an empty line at the end of fstab
and you need to re-boot.
It worked now,
But i’ve to force it to mount.
Before i insert the forced mount version on the fstab, there’s any danger executing this procedure !?
Thanks