Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[Tom Emerson <osnut@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 19 January 2004 5:45 pm, DB Troll wrote:
> Why would I have no windows c: on my system, I have the windows C: in
> the kde but its shows as 0 bits of info.

I suspect the partition isn't "mounted" -- there should be a small green 
triangle next to the disk drive image to indicate "mounted" -- if not there, 
then the partition might as well be in timbuktoo for all the system cares 
about it :)

GENERALLY when you click on the image, the system tries to mount it "for you" 
and give you full permissions to the drive and contents [every file shows you 
as the "owner"]  It pretty much has to be done this way because FAT, the 
filesystem used by DOS/windows, doesn't have a notion of "users", groups, nor 
permissions the same as Unix does.  Depending on options in your fstab file, 
you may or may not be able to mount it "as an ordinary user".  Another 
variant of this is that the system will try and auto-mount the DOS partitions 
at bootup [again, check that fstab] but perhaps it mounts it as "some other 
user" and thus you cannot "see" it [well, the contents...]

> I used to be able to go to this but can no longer change things or read
> anything on C:

Did you do a recent upgrade?  That might explain why things "changed", but 
again GENERALLY Suse doesn't make these sorts of changes from one install to 
the next...

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