Hi All

Having created a nice installation of Slackware 12 on my PC I would like to look at moving my media drive across to be accessible from within KDE.

when i look at the "system:/media" from within KDE I do see a second Drive correctly labled Data Disk however it is not mounted.

Could someone please assist with mounting this ntsf drive as I have read through most of the threads and retrieved bits of info from each but not gained a clear picture.

/etc/fstab
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Thanks in advance from a complete newbie
Al

you first need to get the ntfs-3g driver for slackware 12

(http://www2.linuxpackages.net/packag...-i486-1McD.tgz)

then you need to add you windows drive to your /etc/fstab file

add the following line:

replace 'x' with the actual letter of your windows drive

/windows is the mount point

ntfs-3g is the fs type

rw,user are the options
--rw means mount as read-write
--user means any user can unmount/mount the drive

1 2 are for fsck, the file system checking tool
--if you don't want your drive checked for errors every time you boot, then change it to 0 0

any of these option can be changed to you preference (except the fs type, that is a constant)

Sorry for the delay in responding unfortunatly work called anyway Thanks for the walk through on mounting the Windows Device, I will have a crack at it and let you know how I get on.

I have performed the information above on loading ntsf-3g and altered the /etc/fstab as follows.

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb /windows ntsf-3g rw,user 1 2

From here what is required to access this drive as I understand that I now need to mount the hdb

I apologise if this seems so simple but have no experience to date with linux.

Not a problem -- everyone starts somewhere.

Now that you have that in your fstab, make sure the /windows directory exists. If it does, try issuing the command "mount /windows" -- if there's an error message, go ahead and post it here (use code tags, meaning [ code ] and [ /code ] w/o spaces) to help format computer output a bit better. If you don't get an error message, try moving a test file to/from the drive!

Thanks I will post the error message, as I had tried that and did get an error message which i will post shortly.

Not sure about the /windows directory existing which may explain the error below.

It this error is due to no /windows directory please advise where I should be creating this in the directory.

Again thanks for your help with this.

Hi,

You can create a mount point with 'mkdir /windows'.

'man mkdir'. You will need to be root.

Hi and thank you for your time and suggestions.

I have discovered during the process that the ntfs-3g drivers are not installed as I thought they were.

Below is the response when I try and run the doinst.sh file within the install folder.

Any assistance on this would be very helpful, I should also note that I have run and installed fuse 2.7.2 without issue as I understand this to be required also.

Thanks in advance again for all your patience.

You should do:

You mount individual partitions on a disk, so the first part of your entry above is wrong. It should be /dev/hdbx, where x is the partition to be mounted (e.g. /dev/hdb1).

This is off-topic, but is the root account the only account you have on your system? If so, this is bad practice and you should create a normal user account for day-to-day use.

Thanks for all the assistance, not sure what has gone wrong here but on executing "mount /windows" i get the following error.

The HDD that I am trying to mount is a NTFS Logical drive from windows which has mostly music and other media with no real partition as the drive was formated as one drive named data_disk.

In relation to your last suggestion, indeed I do have another account which I generally use but for this I thought it easier to be root.

Hi,

Did you correct your '/etc/fstab' file to reflect the proper drive partition? Post the final '/etc/fstab'.

The disk has one partition with all of the space allocated to it.

That's good. You can use the 'su' command from that user to access root.