Why would I have no windows c: on my system, I have the windows C: in the kde but its shows as 0 bits of info. I used to be able to go to this but can no longer change things or read anything on C: TIA David
On Monday 19 January 2004 5:45 pm, DB Troll wrote:
Why would I have no windows c: on my system, I have the windows C: in the kde but its shows as 0 bits of info.
I suspect the partition isn't "mounted" -- there should be a small green triangle next to the disk drive image to indicate "mounted" -- if not there, then the partition might as well be in timbuktoo for all the system cares about it :) GENERALLY when you click on the image, the system tries to mount it "for you" and give you full permissions to the drive and contents [every file shows you as the "owner"] It pretty much has to be done this way because FAT, the filesystem used by DOS/windows, doesn't have a notion of "users", groups, nor permissions the same as Unix does. Depending on options in your fstab file, you may or may not be able to mount it "as an ordinary user". Another variant of this is that the system will try and auto-mount the DOS partitions at bootup [again, check that fstab] but perhaps it mounts it as "some other user" and thus you cannot "see" it [well, the contents...]
I used to be able to go to this but can no longer change things or read anything on C:
Did you do a recent upgrade? That might explain why things "changed", but again GENERALLY Suse doesn't make these sorts of changes from one install to the next... -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net
Tom Emerson wrote:
On Monday 19 January 2004 5:45 pm, DB Troll wrote:
Why would I have no windows c: on my system, I have the windows C: in the kde but its shows as 0 bits of info.
I suspect the partition isn't "mounted" -- there should be a small green triangle next to the disk drive image to indicate "mounted" -- if not there, then the partition might as well be in timbuktoo for all the system cares about it :)
GENERALLY when you click on the image, the system tries to mount it "for you" and give you full permissions to the drive and contents [every file shows you as the "owner"] It pretty much has to be done this way because FAT, the filesystem used by DOS/windows, doesn't have a notion of "users", groups, nor permissions the same as Unix does. Depending on options in your fstab file, you may or may not be able to mount it "as an ordinary user". Another variant of this is that the system will try and auto-mount the DOS partitions at bootup [again, check that fstab] but perhaps it mounts it as "some other user" and thus you cannot "see" it [well, the contents...]
I used to be able to go to this but can no longer change things or read anything on C:
Did you do a recent upgrade? That might explain why things "changed", but again GENERALLY Suse doesn't make these sorts of changes from one install to the next...
My /etc/fstab is as follows
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdd4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 David
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 12:05, DB Troll wrote:
Tom Emerson wrote:
On Monday 19 January 2004 5:45 pm, DB Troll wrote:
Why would I have no windows c: on my system, I have the windows C: in the kde but its shows as 0 bits of info.
I suspect the partition isn't "mounted" -- there should be a small green triangle next to the disk drive image to indicate "mounted" -- if not there, then the partition might as well be in timbuktoo for all the system cares about it :)
GENERALLY when you click on the image, the system tries to mount it "for you" and give you full permissions to the drive and contents [every file shows you as the "owner"] It pretty much has to be done this way because FAT, the filesystem used by DOS/windows, doesn't have a notion of "users", groups, nor permissions the same as Unix does. Depending on options in your fstab file, you may or may not be able to mount it "as an ordinary user". Another variant of this is that the system will try and auto-mount the DOS partitions at bootup [again, check that fstab] but perhaps it mounts it as "some other user" and thus you cannot "see" it [well, the contents...]
I used to be able to go to this but can no longer change things or read anything on C:
Did you do a recent upgrade? That might explain why things "changed", but again GENERALLY Suse doesn't make these sorts of changes from one install to the next...
My /etc/fstab is as follows
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdd4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 David
Great now what does mount show? also note if you "upgarded" to 2000 or XP to see if the file system changed to NTFS.
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On Tuesday 20 January 2004 01:45, DB Troll wrote:
Why would I have no windows c: on my system, I have the windows C: in the kde but its shows as 0 bits of info. I used to be able to go to this but can no longer change things or read anything on C: TIA David
It is mounted I assume ? If not, try that.. Lee
Lee wrote:
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 01:45, DB Troll wrote:
Why would I have no windows c: on my system, I have the windows C: in the kde but its shows as 0 bits of info. I used to be able to go to this but can no longer change things or read anything on C: TIA David
It is mounted I assume ? If not, try that..
Lee
Lee. Even when mounted it shows 0 files in 0 directorys. There is no icon on mu desktop either. David
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