accessing ntfs drive in slackware
im using slackware. i have an ntfs drive with some music on it but i need it mounted or some shit. what do i need to type in the konsole to get it reconized? without music im just gonna switch back to windows, computer freezing sucks, help me out.
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Lol, your use of profanity made me laugh, I have to reward that with a response.
Here's a basic outline of how to mount the drive: You need to find out what harddrive and partition the ntfs volume is. Look around in the /proc/ide/ directory (ls /proc/ide). My computer has a number of entries, the ones you want start with an 'h'. The ones of interest on my system are "hda", "hdb", and "hdc". These represent the ide drives that are present in your system (not exactly, but hell, close enough). Each of these is itself a directory. You can look in each of them if you want: "ls /proc/ide/hda/", "ls /proc/ide/hdb/", etc. You should see these entries (or at least most of them) : "capacity" "driver" "identify" "media" "model" "settings". You care about the "model" one. This will help you identify the drive which has the ntfs volume on it. To look at the model information, do this "cat /proc/ide/hdx/model" where the 'x' in "hdx" is replaced with the letter of the drive you want to know about. Mine says this: Code:
foo@bar baz $ cat /proc/ide/hdc/model Code:
Command (m for help): p Create a mountpoint. As root (or with "su"), type this "mkdir /mnt/windows". This is the folder which will contain your windows data. Then mount the windows volume to the mountpoint using the mount command: "mount -t ntfs /dev/hdxn /mnt/windows", where the 'x' in "hdxn" is the letter of the drive you found by the above method, and 'n' is the number of the partition you found, again, using the above method. Now, your windows data will be in /mnt/windows, where you can get at it. If you need any more help from me, you'll have to be funny again. Though, always read the manpage of every command you ever type, and after a while, you'll know exactly what they all do. "man <command goes here>". Is your friend. Just in case you don't know the 'q' key will exit the manpage. |
You took out the funny part......... I'd have a good mind to just erase my whole post.
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ok i put the swearing back in, now to try typing some shit, thanks for the response.
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