Dear All,
As nomal “user” I have no access, not even read, to my windows ntfs partitions.
I can see their name but (for instance C) but not what inside is.
With the tool partitioner, the partition is shown as “mounted”.
Can naone tell me why ?
Many thanks in advance
new user x
Because NTFS is a journalled filesystem and if you write to a journalled filesystem when the journal is not running you risk corruption.
Basically openSUSE is protecting users from their own ignorance and assuming that root knows what s/he is doing.
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HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11
Dear John and caf4926,
I cant even read the content of the folders.
I have got to re-install my suse after a problem of graphic drivers corruption.
The read of these files was ok before.
I don’t know what changed.
The use of partitioner shows the partitions are mounted.
Why cant I read them ?
Many thanks in advance
If you are re-installing you better get back to us after that. But during install remember to set mount points for your M$ partitions it makes it a bit easier.
You will need to edit /etc/fstab as the links I gave show.
It will help if you open a su terminal and do
fdisk -l
and post the result
In partinioner, there is a * in front the partitions I cant read.
An idea ?
Many Thanks in advance
new user x
I have to log out now.
Be back in AM
He said his ntfs partition were mounted. I assume he wants to copy his mounted ms files to his newly installed Osuse ext3 home. Why does everyone speak in cli, why does all Global Moderators always fallback in CLI. Whats wrong with GUI speak? What is your desktop KDE or Gnome.
Dear caf4926,
Find hereunder the configuration of my partitions :
"*Disque /dev/sda: 1000.2 Go, 1000204886016 octets
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylindres of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3204e992
Périphérique Amorce Début Fin Blocs Id Système
/dev/sda1 2 121601 976752000 f W95 Etendu (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2 9052 72694125 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 26773 53543 215038026 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 53544 80314 215038026 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 80315 105651 203511420 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda9 107198 121601 115700098+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda10 9052 9313 2104452 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda11 9314 11924 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 11925 26772 119266528+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda13 105651 106304 5253192 83 Linux
/dev/sda14 106305 107197 7172991 83 Linux
Les entrées de la table de partitions ne sont pas dans l’ordre du disque
Disque /dev/sdb: 750.1 Go, 750156374016 octets
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylindres of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9cff9c19
Périphérique Amorce Début Fin Blocs Id Système
/dev/sdb1 * 1 12749 102406311 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 12750 91201 630165690 f W95 Etendu (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 12750 25498 102406311 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 25499 38247 102406311 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb7 38248 50996 102406311 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb8 50997 63745 102406311 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb9 63746 76494 102406311 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb10 76495 84189 61810056 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb11 84190 90563 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb12 90564 91201 5124703+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disque /dev/sdc: 123.5 Go, 123522416640 octets
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15017 cylinders
Units = cylindres of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x21482147
Périphérique Amorce Début Fin Blocs Id Système
/dev/sdc1 * 1 6374 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc2 6375 15017 69424897+ f W95 Etendu (LBA)
/dev/sdc5 6375 10709 34820856 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc6 10710 15017 34603978+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
*"
In the meantime, I ran winxp to check if there was a problem with the partitions. Nothing at all. I came back in suse the partitions are now readable :
Just don’t know what happened.
Thank You anyway
new user x
Well the mounting of the partitions is done in /etc/fstab
If you change anything in there you need to re-boot.
Also, remember always to exit windows properly with a reboot/shutdown.
Let us know if we can help again.
I have always used this guide for NTFS:
NTFS - openSUSE
Please note that it is imperative you shut down windows properly in order to have NTFS drive access. If you hibernate windows you will not have NTFS drive access. Also, under MS-Windows you may need to do a chkdsk of NTFS do see if there are errors. If there are errors on the NTFS then NTFS-3G driver for Linux will likely NOT give you access until the errors are fixed. The errors need to be fixed under MS-Windows.
And finally after the errors are fixed, you will likely have read but not write access.
Per the link I provided, in order to get write access one typically in the /etc/fstab file needs to change fmask to 113 and dmask to 002 , save the change and then reboot to Linux.
@oldcpu: It has long bothered me that this guide has errors relating to the options “user” and “users”. What is the etiquette for amending it to make the code in the code boxes correct?
Just go in and fix it 
It will be clear in the history that is has been changed and if there is signficant disagreement, reverting to the older version should be easy.
Thanks. (The “user” and “users” options are not enabled in openSUSE for NTFS).