y I can't see my other partations ?

hi

first of all I have several partations , one for windows and the second as shared one and sevral partations for linux (boot,root,home,swap)
I used to use windows 7 and Fedora , and then decided to move to OpenSUSE , so through opensuse installer I choosed fedora partitions and formated them and assigned them for opensuse , the installer mentioned that it’ll make mount points for the other partations (win7 and shared) . but now I’m using opensuse and I can’t find this two partations , I can only find root and home partations

I had before win 7 and Fedora , and I managed to see and use windows 7 partations through fedora , but here in OpenSUSE I can see or access the other partations (I checked that they are still exist through windows )

could someone help please …

Please post result of the following from a su terminal:

fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 6406 51347456 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 6406 32667 210942976 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 * 32668 38913 50170995 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 34707 37894 25599999+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 37894 38913 8191999+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 32668 32680 102400 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 32680 34706 16275455+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part8 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part7 /boot ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part5 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part2 /windows/D ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part3 /windows/E ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 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

thanks for you quick respond

They are all there. Please tell me if you use gnome or kde

I use gnome

I use kde,so I am not sure where you should look.
But in your file browser, is there a ‘Places’ or can you enable it in the view mode?

In your directory tree, do you see the folder /windows
This where your partitions will be mounted

Otherwise try this in a su terminal

mount -t ntfs-3g   /dev/sda1   /windows/C

I’ve checked the tree and there are only two folders
Home Folder
File System

I’ve tried the last command you gave and the output is

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /windows/C
ntfs-3g-mount: mount failed: Device or resource busy

You are missing the obvious somewhere.
Let me PM a gnome user to help

ok waiting , and thanks for your time and support

I can tell you those partitions are already setup to mount. I’m surprised they don’t show up in ‘My Computer’

Also, I always edit fstab, so they are mounted differently. When you do find them you will see they need the root password to mount them. I set them a permanent mount point and read write access. But that is not always a good idea, unless you know what you are doing.

If you don’t get sorted by a gnome user, I can give a load of commands to run, to set it up.

as I mentioned , I used to use Fedora , and I could always find the partations at places and when I want to access them I had to insert root password , I know that , but here as I mentioned they don’t appear at places at all …

yea if you give the commands it would be way better …

Here is a guide to editing fstab

FSTAB - Editing Manually - openSUSE Forums

First lets make some directories
Open a terminal and become su -
And do this:

mkdir /win7

Close that terminal and open a user terminal and do this

gnomesu gedit /etc/fstab

comment out the win7 install partition with a # and add a new line. I show it all below:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part8 /                     ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part6 swap                  swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part7 /boot                 ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part5 /home                 ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part1 /windows/C            ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part2 /windows/D            ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
#/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part3 /windows/E            ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda3 /win7             ntfs-3g    defaults 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                      

save it and reboot

I’m sure sda3 is your win7 install
I have to go out for a few hours. So hope that works for you.

sorry for being late , actually I didn’t work (BTW sda3 is win7 as you said), do you thing re-installing the opensuse will solve it ?

really grateful for you effort

Please post again

cat /etc/fstab

that’s the result

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part8 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part7 /boot ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part5 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part2 /windows/D ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
#/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_X86WT5WXT-part3 /windows/E ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda3 /win7 ntfs-3g defaults 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

please now do this and post result

ls /

bin boot dev etc home lib lost+found media mnt opt proc root sbin selinux srv sys tmp usr var win7 windows

I opened the win7 folder and found all the contents of the windows patation
I’ve taken a screen shot , notice there’s still only two partation

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_6U1HxNbl0ZM/S5ue096mgnI/AAAAAAAAANw/2e9-YCbXeyM/s800/Screenshot.png

So it is mounted fine
What is the problem now?

Are you wanting the other partitions mounted the same. I think that looking at your ls /

bin boot dev etc home lib lost+found media mnt opt proc root sbin selinux srv sys tmp usr var win7 **windows **

The red win7 is the one we created and the green windows is where the other windows partitions will be in the folders C and D
like this:
/windows/C
/windows/D

Explain what you need now

I got it now , I didn’t realize where is the other partation first but now it’s clear

I just want to know something , when I used to use Fedora , I could see the two partations in tree nod , notice the image above , you’ll notice there are only home and file system , I used to find my other partatoin there in Fedora , so is it fine now that they don’t appear here ?

otherwise everything else is working good .

As far as I know, you should have been able to see them in SUSE, the same as Fedora.
Forgive me but I think you were just missing something.

But at least you got it now;)