i have a separate hard drive with opensuse 11.4 kde in my desktop computer and when i boot up into vista. i can see the opesuse’s harddrive in the device manage, in disk management but i dont see the drive in my computer folder. is there a way to access files or see files an folders in opensuse from vista? … or vice versa i can see in sysinfo/ in opensuse, i can see my other harddrives but cant access them with? curious. opensuse works fine when i boot into it from my bios
Hi,
Vista (orany windows for that matter) can’t “see” ext2/3/4 etc drives.
For this, you’d need something like ext2explore (google & download it) which enables you to read (not write) from ext2/3/4 partitions from within windows.
Normally you should, at least, be able too read the windows (NTFS?) disks from within opensuse - show us the contents of /etc/fstab to see why not.
HTH
lenwolf
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJS-22PSA0_WD-WMAP93332523-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJS-22PSA0_WD-WMAP93332523-part2 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJS-22PSA0_WD-WMAP93332523-part3 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2 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
Please use code tags to make code readable here in the forum. Go advanced mode for easy to use code tags.
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJS-22PSA0_WD-WMAP93332523-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJS-22PSA0_WD-WMAP93332523-part2 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJS-22PSA0_WD-WMAP93332523-part3 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2 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
how do i see a file on my opensuse desktop from vista i installed ext2explore, when i go to home in ext2explore i dont see anything
thanks
That paste seems to me missing the line breaks is that how that file looks?
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJS-22PSA0_WD-WMAP93332523-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJS-22PSA0_WD-WMAP93332523-part2 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJS-22PSA0_WD-WMAP93332523-part3 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
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
that is the way it should look.
yes, thats what it look like. when i click on my computer and it brings to sysinfo/ under disk information i see my windows hard drives /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sda1 ntfs but when i right click on any one of them and open in a new window i get therre is no application installed that can open files of the type block device inode/bockdevice
or if im in root folder i see the hard drives and when i click on anyone of them i get authentication is required to mount device, asks for password for root. is it safe to mount and should it be asking to mount?
If you don’t have the partition setup in /etc/fstab then you have to mount it and only root can mount a partition. Not I said partition. MS screwed everyone up by calling partitions drives. But then what do you expect??? In any case you can add the Windows partitions to fstab, either by editing as root or in Yast partition setup you can tell it to mount the Windows or other partition on start up which simply adds a new line to fstab. But may be easier if you are married to a GUI.
in yast , i go to partition, click on hard discs then just click on sda1 and sdb1 hit edit put dot in mount partition. whats the mount point i pick /srv or /tmp or /local? do i pick the same point for each windows drive?
Aaargh, no. Why are you doing things to openSUSE’s files, when you want something from the windows side? Do you mean “check radio box” when you say “put dot in mount partition”?
Your C:\ should best be mounted in /windows/C, your D:\ best in /windows/D. In fact, it should already be like that.
Please, do nothing until one of us tells you to do something, otherwise you may risk data-loss.
For now, post output (between code and /code tags) of
su -c 'fdisk -l'
enter rootpassword when prompted for.
On 2011-11-06 22:46, diablo1 wrote:
>
> in yast , i go to partition, click on hard discs then just click on sda1
> and sdb1 hit edit put dot in mount partition. whats the mount point i
> pick /srv or /tmp or /local? do i pick the same point for each windows
> drive?
/windows/C
/windows/D
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
i did want to read and copy files in opensuse from windows someone suggested downloading and installing ext2explore in windows but i couldnt read the file i put on my opensuse’s desktop to test viewing from windows… so i assumed your not able to view opensuse files from windows. Then decidedd to experiment trying to view files in windows from opensuse.
su -c ‘fdisk -l’
result from code
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xab8b566a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 976771071 488384512 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x89d5b805
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 976768064 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x01265622
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 2048 4208639 2103296 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc2 * 4208640 46153727 20972544 83 Linux
/dev/sdc3 46153728 312580095 133213184 83 Linux
i did want to read and copy files in opensuse from windows someone suggested downloading and installing ext2explore in windows but i couldnt read the file i put on my opensuse’s desktop to test viewing from windows… so i assumed your not able to view opensuse files from windows. Then decidedd to experiment trying to view files in windows from opensuse.
su -c ‘fdisk -l’
result from code
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xab8b566a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 976771071 488384512 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x89d5b805
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 976768064 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x01265622
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 2048 4208639 2103296 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc2 * 4208640 46153727 20972544 83 Linux
/dev/sdc3 46153728 312580095 133213184 83 Linux
sda1 and sdb1 are your 2 Windows partition.
mount sda1 at /windows/c mount point
mount sdb1 at /windows/d mount point
note you can define any mount point you want as long as it is not a normal Linux directory otherwise the mount will overload that directory and most likely not work anymore.
You will then find the Windows partitions at /windows/c and /windows/d off of the Linux root directory.
Note that Linux file names are case sensitive unlike Windows
…and to accomplish that i enter yast , pick partition, click on the hard discs then click on sda1 and sdb1, hit the edit button, put dot in the circle of mount partition. choose a point thats not any folder in opensuse, can i pick the same point for both the c and d hard drives or do they have to be different as well?
On 2011-11-07 11:26, diablo1 wrote:
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> …and to accomplish that i enter yast , pick partition, click on the
> hard discs then click on sda1 and sdb1, hit the edit button, put dot in
> the circle of mount partition. choose a point thats not any folder in
> opensuse, can i pick the same point for both the c and d hard drives or
> do they have to be different as well?
Of course they have to be different. And we already told you three times at
least what to name them.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
/windows/C
/windows/D
OH name them /windows/C & /windows/D as up above, got it…
I thought you were just telling me that those two drives were /windows/C & /windows/D
Hi,
ext2explore has always worked reliably on any computer I have used.
When you start it up as an administrator (!) it should show you at least two partitions, one where there is a /home which leads nowhere, and one with the real /home partition, where you can then get at your desktop!
HTH
Lenwolf
PS note that this is for getting at your Linux data from the windows side.
Linux handles partitions differently from Windows. In Windows partitions are named A,B,C,D,etc drives. ( go figure why partitions are named as drives…) In Linux/Unix partitions are mounted to the file system. You make a mount point (ie just make a directory) and you can then mount the partition to that mount point. Mount points can be anywhere in the file system but in general directory names used by the OS should be avoided unless you mean to have a directory on a separate partition, such as having a seperate boot partition. You can have the partitions auto-mount by adding the mount parameters to the /etc/fstab file.