Howdy Peeps. Was just wondering if anybody else can access their other hard drives/partitions through dolphin like you should be able to… it works in Kubuntu and Fedora just by clicking and entering password, but i noticed it don’t work in opensuse. I get a permissions error… and some partitions don’t even show at all in Suse…
I know how to manually mount them, but if it works in dolphin in other distro’s automatically, it should work in Suse too. maybe worth a bug report?
If the partitions are NTFS you probably need to edit fstab
FSTAB - Editing Manually - openSUSE Forums
the end of the entry for any ntfs partition is: from the point where it has ntfs-3g: ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
eg:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9160827AS_5RF16D1B-part1 /path_to/mount_point ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
That’s just an example
sure, i can do that. im just saying, if it works in :kubuntu, fedora etc… it should work without hassle in Suse as well. Its just weird that it doesn’t without messing around. kind of annoying. but ahwell.
You don’t have to edit fstab
eg: mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /path_to/mount_point
from su terminal, but isn’t the partition already mounted in fstab, just not with the permissions. edit to fstab is easy enough.
In SUSE it’s slightly more over protective than some distro’s. Being that writing to a actual windows OS could be fatal if the user is still ‘wet behind the ears’.
> In SUSE it’s slightly more over protective than some distro’s. Being
> that writing to a actual windows OS could be fatal if the user is still
> ‘wet behind the ears’.
recall “Linux is Not Windows” <http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm>?
maybe someone needs to write a “openSUSE is Not SuSE, SLED/S, Kubuntu,
Fedora, etc etc etc”
never mind, they won’t read it before complaining.
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decorated_warrior
quote "maybe someone needs to write a “openSUSE is Not SuSE, SLED/S, Kubuntu,
Fedora, etc etc etc”
“never mind, they won’t read it before complaining.”
Maybe thats the problem… what works on one distro should work on another… especially when it is the same desktop environment/same file manager/ and something so simple… something so small matters for some people… it should just work no matter if it is suse, opensuse, fedora, kubuntu etc etc.
not that it really matters too much to me, i know how to fix it… but some people will have a hard time with it. it should just work, especially in opensuse vs kubuntu etc.
> Maybe thats the problem… what works on one distro should work on
> another…
or we could just have ONE distro…how about that?
and, then we could point all of the open source talent toward making a
better Windows[tm] look alike, with everyone doing the same thing the
same way, NO MATTER WHAT…
Kaddy i’m afraid you miss all the meanings of free in “free and open
source software”…because in addition to “free of charge”
(sometimes) it also means FREE to be different…
count them at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
then come back with your plan to make them all alike!!
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decorated_warrior
SuSE/openSUSE is often regarded as a fairly serious desktop and this attitude seems to flow also to enhanced protection of windows filesystems which might be hanging around on a computer’s spare partitions.
As caf4926 intimated, you can inadvertently make an NTFS partition appear to be broken if you unmount it ungently from a Linux or windows operating system.
So I think the mounting of NTFS (and FAT) partitions read-only is a defensible, conscious policy choice on the part of the developers who write openSUSE.
OpenSUSE 11.2 will carry the new ntfs-3g driver. The driver will automatically “recover” and repair a corrupted or inconsistent NTFS volume if it’s possible. This “recovery” is often necessary after an NTFS partition has been ungently unmounted in Linux or windows. Maybe then we will see a different policy in openSUSE towards write-ability for automounted windows filesystems?
FWIW.
errrrrmmm. ok. you sir, are a knobspanker. No need to get defensive mate. I like how different distro’s are all alike in alot of ways, but also different in many ways… does that mean that something that works out of the box in 1 distro shouldn’t work in another? or vice versa? i think not… hell… all im saying is that something so simple like this should just work no matter what distro… I thought maybe a bug report was nessasary, thats why i was asking opinions… don’t you think that dolphin in 1 distro should work the same in another distro? or do you define different opensource projects/distro’s should be different in a way that some should be broken… or lack features using the same program/file manager or wotever it is to set it apart from the other? hell… if that is the aim of open source in your mind…then you are the one mistaken. all im saying is that it should work out of the box and instead of complaining about it, asking for the feature to be added or fixed would be nice, as not everybody can be bothered editing configuration files or **** farting about.
The question was asked why NTFS mounts differently in openSUSE vis a vis Fedora and Ubuntu. It was answered in terms of the deliberate policies of the ppl who write the underlying mount code.
It’s meant to be that way. That’s pretty simple and straightforward.
No need for a biffing match guys. This isn’t the Soapbox forum or the General ChitChat forum. Thread closed for sake of community harmony.