On 04/18/2009 10:54 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2009-04-18 at 07:19 -0700, Lewis Wolfgang wrote:
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Then, I tried to mount the main NTFS partition and failed miserably! I did a mount -r /dev/sda3 /mnt and all I got was a hang so hard that a power cycle was needed.
That doesn't look like the correct command. Either ntfs-3g /dev/sda3 /mnt, or mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda3 /mnt.
Was I doing something wrong? Or does openSuSE have issues with Vista's version of NTFS?
Assuming the live can mount ntfs (ie, it contains the necessary modules), Linux can not mount an ntfs filesystem that was not closed properly by windows. Ie, in any case, you'd have to at least boot windows, and close it "normally".
Though closing it properly is best, it isn't a requirement.
ntfs-3g can not mount an ntfs filesystem with data in the journal, so that it has to be closed first by windows. And I suppose it can not be broken in any way... meaning you can run the antivirus in Linux, but not repair an ntfs partition, AFAIK.
You cannot repair an ntfs partition in linux, but you can mount it by adding -o force, i.e. mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda3 /mnt -o force. As you correctly assume, this should not be the first option, but is available when Windows cannot shutdown properly. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org