On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 06:36, Marshall Heartley wrote:
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:12, Thinker wrote:
I did "mount -t ntfs /dev/hdh1 /mnt" (as root and without the quotes) and I am now able to see the contents of my NTFS drive but only as root and only in the terminal window. How do I enable this drive to be accessible for all users all the time and be accessible via Konqueror or Nautilus or other file managers?
When you mount the drive, you should be able to use any file manager to see the contents of the drive. But in your instance you cannot? This is puzzling to say the least. To have the system allow you to mount the drives try this. In the fstab change the type from auto to ntfs and make sure that in the options field that you have user in there.
Here is an exapmle of what it should look like. You will need to edit the /etc/fstab as root. Substitute the hd parameter with the correct one for your machine.
/dev/hdh1 /windows ntfs ro,user,exec,noauto 0 0
The above should tell the mount program to mount the first partition on disk hdh to the mountpoint /windows and use ntfs file system to mount it and allow users to mount with read only, can execute files and do not automatically mount at boot. You can change the directory on where it mounts all you have to do is create the directory that you want to mount the partition to and them edit the /etc/fstab to reflect where you want to mount the partition to.
I added the following line to /etc/fstab /dev/hdh1 /windows ntfs ro, user, exec, noauto 0 0 and then I rebooted the machine (because I think that is what I was supposed to do?) When the machine came back up I logged into KDE and there was an icon on my desktop titled 'windows'. When I clicked it I got the following error message. "Could not mount device. The report was: mount: mount point /windows does not exist." I checked /etc/fstab to see if my addition was still there, and it was. As a user, when I type 'mount /windows' I get "mount: mount point /windows does not exist". As root, when I type 'mount /windows' I get the same error. Is there something else I should do or something I need installed that may be missing? Are there any log files that I should post here to verify anything? As I said, when I did 'mount -t ntfs /dev/hdh1 /mnt' as root I am able to see the contents of the drive. Help. Thanks, -Thinker