https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641324 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641324#c0 Summary: Improve Error messaging with ntfs mount Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Final Platform: i386 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: public@alvise.ch QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-GB) AppleWebKit/532.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) konqueror/4.5.1 Safari/532.4 When opening my ntfs partition with dolphin, I got the following message: Error opening '/dev/sda1': Permission denied Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Permission denied Please check '/dev/sda1' and the ntfs-3g binary permissions, and the mounting user ID. More explanation is provided at http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged Wondering what had happened to my ntfs partition, I tried to mount it as root. Here is the error message that I got then: Windows is hibernated, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is hibernated. Please resume and shutdown Windows properly, or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option, or mount the volume read-write with the 'remove_hiberfile' mount option. For example type on the command line: mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda1 /windows I am surprised to see 2 different error messages especially because the first one is almost useless while the second one gives a good hint for resolving the problem. Can't the 2nd error message be used for all users? Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.