Hi,
I’d like to upgrade to suse 11.2 (currently using suse 10.2) and I’ve attached an external hard drive to save some data on, but it will only mount read-only, by either automount or by command line.
Here’s the mount command I use (as root):
mount -t ntfs -o rw /dev/sdb1 /media/ExpansionDrive
but when I look, permissions are
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2009-12-05 13:38 cgate
Some related discussion on the opensuse forums has mentioned ntfs-3g, but my external filesystem type is ntfs. ntfs-3g is not available on my system currently or when I search for it with yast. I’m assuming I don’t necessarily need ntfs-3g in order to mount my drive as read-write, but please correct me if I’m wrong.
I’ve found helpful discussions on related topics in these threads:
External Hard Disk Ntfs - openSUSE Forums
LiveCD:Can’t write to external HDD - openSUSE Forums
HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE
However, these have not been specific enough to solve this particular issue. I can’t think of any other possible problems other than the ntfs-3g, so please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks very much.
Allan
Not sure if this is necessary, but I’m using SUSE 10.2, kernel 2.6.18.2-34, and the external drive is a Seagate 1TB.