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 I installed SuSE 9.0, I use new disks. Now that I have 9.0 up and running, I need to reconnect the 5 Hard Drives I had in my Windows 2000 machine in order to retrieve the files from them. I plan on simply needing them for read access. Some of the files will be moved from the storage drives to my /Documents folder. All of the drives are formatted NTFS. Thanks in advance. -=Thinker
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.
When I installed SuSE 9.0, I use new disks. Now that I have 9.0 up and running, I need to reconnect the 5 Hard Drives I had in my Windows 2000 machine in order to retrieve the files from them. I plan on simply needing them for read access. Some of the files will be moved from the storage drives to my /Documents folder.
The above should do it for you. HTH -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, we just do not have all the answers to make the impossible, possible."
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
On 12/02/2003 09:23 PM, Thinker wrote:
/dev/hdh1 /windows ntfs ro, user, exec, noauto 0 0
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."
You need to create the directory (mount point). Since you mentioned you had several disks to do this to, you might want to make a structure /windows/disk1, /windows/disk2, etc, and change your mount point in fstab to (for example) /dev/hdh1 /windows/disk1 ntfs ro,user,exec,noauto 0 0, and so on for the other disks. HTH -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
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