Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
Hangga wrote:
Hello linuxer,
My system right now is dual booting, winXP and suse8.0. The winXP use NTFS partition. How can I set suse8.0, so it can read the ntfs partition from windows. I've tried to mounting the ntfs partition, but failed. I've heard that another new released distro - like mandrake 9.0 - could read ntfs partition.
Please, give me step by step information, because I'm still newbie on linux
Cross-posting is bad netiquette.
The fast way: su - ** input root password fdisk -l ** identify what partition is windows/ntfs; will call it /dev/hdaX mount -t ntfs /dev/hdaX /mnt ls /mnt
The elegant way: mkdir /mnt/ntfs add to /etc/fstab /dev/hdaX /mnt/ntfs ntfs noauto,user,mode=0777 0 0 I'm not sure that mode=0777 will be exactly what you want, but try it.
Just a request for notification.... I used to run red hat with Kernel 2.4.18 and with that I needed to re-compile the kernel to support any NTFS-functionalities. Luckily I have moved along from those days, removed all Windowses from my computer and need no NTFS mounts anymore, but just out of curiosity, is Suse 8.0 pro really capable of mounting NTFS partitions "right-out-of-the-box". If this is the case, must admit that Suse really ROCKS.. (although we all propably know that already by now) P_tr