-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2009-01-17 at 10:45 +0800, George Olson wrote:
Hello all, I am running Suse 11.1 and just installed a dual Windows/ Suse installation on my pc. I am a total newbie at Linux so please bear with me :)
I am using the KDE desktop. I have 4 partitions on my hard drive, with my C drive for windows, and my data drive (labeled E in windows, but D in Linux - this is the drive I want to share between operating systems), and then my extended partition in Linux, which has a swap drive, root, and home.
when I want to look at the contents of the data drive using the Dolphin navigator, it checks out ok on this path: /windows/D.
But I wrote a test document in the open office spreadsheet and saved it in my home directory. Then I tried to copy it into /windows/D, and there is no "paste" option when i right click in D.
so I checked the permissions using the "mount" command in a terminal window and this is what I got for the D drive:
/dev/sda2 on /windows/D type fuseblk (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
fuseblk? I've never seen it before :-?
Can anyone help me figure out how to enable writing data to this drive/partition? Ultimately I want to install Mozilla Thunderbird in both Windows and Suse, and be able to access the data on this shared drive, so that I can do email in either operating system. But before that, I have to be simply be able to read and write to my shared data partition, which I cannot do right now.
I do not know what type fuseblk is, so I need to know if it is something else by another name. Do this on konsole - probably you need to be root: su - <== it will ask for your root password file -s /dev/sda2 <== this will tell me what type that partition really is. I expect vfat or ntfs. After that, the procedure is to create an entry in /etc/fstab to mount it either manually or automatically, with write permissions, and not via Dolphin, so that any program can access it. I see you are using gmail, so please remember to reply to the list. I'm off to bed, but maybe some other can take it further before I come back. I mention this in case you are also new to this mail list :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklxUwMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XF3QCfeGdUruCpPAj7npTTD4i1Bv2Q Lq0An1gfzLqNY4I5yqTtxRdF0SIP9VMq =ISDo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org