Finding NTFS partitons for ntfs-3g ?

Dixioldie · 01-07-2009, 12:39 AM

Hello,

My harddisk has several partitons: 3xNTFS for WindowsXP and 2 for Linux Centos5.2

With ntfs-3g I can only find and mount the first WinXP partition (which is the DISK-C for Windows)
What is needed to also mount the other NTFS partitions with ntfs-3g?

Has anybody had this problem an solved it?

(Sorry, if this question is silly for somebody. I'm not yet experienced with all issues of Linux)

rylan76 · 01-07-2009, 01:42 AM

What commandline are you using to mount the C drive?

I. e. on my system, to moun the C drive to /mnt/win, I do

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win

i. e. with my IDE drive setup as it is here, drive c is mapped to /dev/hdb1

As far as I know, if I had a drive D, it would have been /dev/hdb2

I. e. if you know your device name for your C drive, the D drive (if it is a partition on the same physical drive) should be

hd*2

where the * will be some alphabetical character.

If the D drive is a different physical drive of course, it won't be hdb2 or hdc2 or somesuch, but hdc1 or hdd1.

Hope this helps...

colucix · 01-07-2009, 01:48 AM

You can check the partition scheme of your disk using (as root)

Code:

fdisk -l

Dixioldie · 01-07-2009, 09:40 AM

OK. manual mounting works now.
the second drive is for CD-ROM. That was the reason for not mounting sda2.

Ican now successfully mount with the commans:

mount -t /dev/sda1 /mnt/DISK-C
mount -t /dev/sda3 /mnt/DISK-E

I put the following lines to fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/DISK-C ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 /mnt/DISK-E ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

but this did'nt work.

Any idea, why this is not working?

PTrenholme · 01-07-2009, 10:06 AM

Those fstab entries took correct, although I put a rw before the defaults. Here's what I do on this laptop with Vista installed:

First, because using UUID still works if drives are moved, I get the UUID to partition map:

Code:

$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-01-07 07:44 17841f9e-fa3a-4850-aa52-0e6d0ba242e3 ->../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-01-07 07:44 22b2553f-6199-4b82-b20c-6ad7c7b6688f ->../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-01-07 07:44 2C88743C8874071C -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-01-07 07:44 342D7D7923AC4107 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-01-07 07:44 92ff1a1e-9e16-4828-953e-fbdfde536452 ->../../sdb1

Then create the entries in the fstab:

Code:

$ cat /etc/fstab | grep -i ntfs
UUID=342D7D7923AC4107   /Vista                  ntfs-3g rw,defaults     0 0
UUID=2C88743C8874071C   /Vista/Recovery         ntfs-3g rw,defaults     0 0

<edit>
By the way, I prefer mounting devices "owned" by other operating system directly under / rather than in sub-directories of /mnt. Obviously you can mount any device anywhere you want it in your file system, so it's of no particular significance. Since all "standard" Linux systems use lower case directory names, I create my mount points with initial upper case names:

Code:

$ ls -d /[KUV]*
/Kingston  /Ubuntu  /USB_Fedora  /Vista

</edit>

Dixioldie · 01-08-2009, 12:45 AM

Thanks for the very good help!
I'm happy now (and know a bit more about Linux)