Unable to open drives other than root drive

I am 1st time user of openSUSE(using 12.1). I am not able to view the windows partitions of my Harddisk. I feel they might be mounted because whenever I try to save an edited text file for example, I can see destinations like Drives C,D,E that I am unable to find otherwise. Please help me access the data/mount the drives permanently.

So that we can get an understanding of you configuration; please run the following commands in a terminal window (e.g. Konsole), and post the output inside CODE tags (It’s a pain but you have to choose Advanced when you reply and then #).


sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
cat /etc/mtab
cat /etc/fstab
df -lhT

If you want to give access rigths to any user to mount and eject USB Sticks etc. you have to run the Policy Editor. Go to the menu and type Pol the first in the list es the tool you find it under freedesktop-org.

Remarks Lucas

vikhyath@linux-egcf:~> sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
root's password:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 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: 0x0393754d

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048      409599      203776    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2          409600   420675583   210132992    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3   *   420677630   462618623    20970497    5  Extended
/dev/sda4       462618624   488394751    12888064    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5       458565632   462618623     2026496   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6       420677632   435832831     7577600   83  Linux
/dev/sda7       435832833   458565029    11366098+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order


vikhyath@linux-egcf:~> cat /etc/mtab
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=985972k,nr_inodes=246493,mode=755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
/dev/sda6 / ext4 rw,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=755 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/memory cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/devices cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event 0 0
systemd-1 /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc autofs rw,relatime,fd=26,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755 0 0
tmpfs /media tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=755 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
hugetlbfs /dev/hugepages hugetlbfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755 0 0
mqueue /dev/mqueue mqueue rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/sda4 /windows/D fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/sda2 /windows/C fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/sda7 /home ext4 rw,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/vikhyath/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100 0 0
vikhyath@linux-egcf:~> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS725025A9A364_100118PCK200VJG8T8EK-part5 swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS725025A9A364_100118PCK200VJG8T8EK-part6 /                    ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS725025A9A364_100118PCK200VJG8T8EK-part7 /home                ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 2
/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0-part2                  /windows/C           ntfs-3g    user,users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS725025A9A364_100118PCK200VJG8T8EK-part4 /windows/D           ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Toshiba_External_USB_HDD_2010050263DE-0:0-part1 /windows/E           ntfs-3g    user,users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8,nofail 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt ntfs-3g user,users,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0
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

vikhyath@linux-egcf:~> df -lhT
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs         rootfs    7.2G  3.7G  3.2G  54% /
devtmpfs       devtmpfs  963M  8.0K  963M   1% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     969M 1020K  968M   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     969M  664K  969M   1% /run
/dev/sda6      ext4      7.2G  3.7G  3.2G  54% /
tmpfs          tmpfs     969M     0  969M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs          tmpfs     969M  664K  969M   1% /var/lock
tmpfs          tmpfs     969M     0  969M   0% /media
tmpfs          tmpfs     969M  664K  969M   1% /var/run
/dev/sda1      fuseblk   199M   30M  170M  15% /mnt
/dev/sda4      fuseblk    13G   11G  2.1G  84% /windows/D
/dev/sda2      fuseblk   201G   99G  103G  50% /windows/C
/dev/sda7      ext4       11G  419M  9.8G   5% /home

Thanks for your replies. After looking around in this forum, i think this might be the NTFS drive problem. I tried the solutions in other threads but they are really hard to understand. Can anybody simplify it?

On 2011-12-11 10:26, vikhyath wrote:

> Code:
> --------------------
> /dev/sda4 /windows/D fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
> /dev/sda2 /windows/C fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
> --------------------
>

Your windows partitions are opened already, at /windows/c and /windows/D.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)