Rest harddrive not mounted?

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Hi,

I installed the latest and greatest (Suse 11.0, network install, after booting from LiveCD) on my new system. My installation has some serious issues. As a result my latest and greatest (11.0) does not work as I came to expect it (9.3 on my old box).

The rest of my system contains different partitions, formatted using NTFS. I would like to be able to access these partitions (for example /dev/sda10) to save data from Linux on it.

If I look in my fstab (/etc/fstab) no partitions are available. Only if I look with Yast at LVM I see information about the rest of my system. Is that because everything else on my system is NTFS formatted? I could see my NTFS partitions on my old system (and write to Fat32).

Should I reformat one of the partitions to Fat32?

And, should I have to manually mount my filesystem? How should I do that? Create a directory in my home directory, and mount a partition to that directory?


cd /home/mydirectory
mkdir swap
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda10 swap

This did not result in what I expected (error message on ntfs).So what do I need to do?

Abel

PS. I consider this an installation issue, as it works on my old box. Feel free to move it to more appropriate pastures.

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HI Abel

Mounting NTFS read-write requires you use the driver “ntfs-3g”
Temporary mounts using console CLI are like this:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda10 /full_path_to/mount_point

Permanent mounts are with an entry in fstab like this:

/dev/sda10    /full_path_to/mount_point    ntfs-3g    defaults    0 0

For more info see here:
HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11

If I look in my fstab (/etc/fstab) no partitions are available.

You will see in fstab only the partitions that you command to mount at boot time by the lines in fstab. If you want to see the unmounted partitions and the mounted partitions too, then use this console command:

sudo /sbin/fdisk -l

Should I reformat one of the partitions to Fat32?

Not now, mount the NTFS partitions first

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Thanks a bundle.