I just installed opensuse 11.0. I previously had been running Kubuntu and was sick of it. When I decided to transfer to Opensuse, I put some files on my window drive I need but now, open suse doesn’t recognize my windows partition.I would like to have access to my window drive to get to those files as well as have access to it for storage
Hello and welcome to the Forums.
They’re not far away, the NTFS files. They might even be there automagically but u can’t find them. Let’s see. Please open a console and enter these three commands and use copy/paste to report the dialogue back here:
cat /etc/fstab | grep ntfs
sudo /sbin/fdisk -l | grep NTFS
df -Th | grep fuse
They should track them down and give their status.
Case is important.
sorry to jump in on a thread: but here is my output for the same problem:
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bob@linux-7ehr:~> cat /etc/fstab | grep ntfs
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3200820AS_5QE1BFHJ-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
bob@linux-7ehr:~> sudo /sbin/fdisk -1 | grep NTFS
root’s password:
bob@linux-7ehr:~> sudo /sbin/fdisk -l | grep NTFS
/dev/sda1 * 1020 10581 76806765 7 HPFS/NTFS
bob@linux-7ehr:~> df -Th | grep fuse*
What happens next please?
This says
This says
bob@linux-7ehr:~> sudo /sbin/fdisk -l | grep NTFS
/dev/sda1 * 1020 10581 76806765 7 HPFS/NTFS
That an NTFS partition exists as the first partition on drive 1
And this says
bob@linux-7ehr:~> cat /etc/fstab | grep ntfs
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3200820AS_5QE1BFHJ-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
that the NTFS partition should mount at boot time in the filesystem at location /windows/C
BUT this says
bob@linux-7ehr:~> df -Th | grep fuse
that even though it exists and even though it’s instructed to mount, it did not mount.
So something is preventing it. I think that it is marked for a file system check when it next boots into windows. Partitions so marked will not mount in Suse unless you “force” them to. So I suggest that you edit this line in fstab:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3200820AS_5QE1BFHJ-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
and change it to this form
/dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs-3g defaults,force,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
To edit the text file fstab you first back it up with this command in a console:
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.back.txt
Then open it in a text editor with this command if using KDE:
kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab
or tis one if using Gnome:
gnomesu gedit /etc/fstab
fix the line and reboot and then look in your file browser at the location /windows/C
Might be lucky
Solved in this case anyway!
Thank You - great response in the usual Linux way. On behalf of NewBs, many thanks
Stob
I’m glad it worked for you.
I also suggest that you remove the condition that caused the problem. Boot into windows and let it do an auto file system check. This should happen at the beginning of the boot sequence, where the white (?) bar creeps across the screen. If it doesn’t happen, then after the boot goto the hard drive icon –> R-click –> Properties –> Tools –> Error-checking –> Check now –> Auto fix + scan and recover sectors –> accept to do it at boot time if asked.