possible mount issue; cant see anything on ntfs
 

Hi,

I recently have converted my windows partition from ntfs to fat32, I used to be able to see (read) it. I used Partition Tragic to do it, as it is a laptop and therefore has a Norton Ghosted recovery disc which auto converts to ntfs.

Why can't I see my win partition now, I believe I must amend etc/fstab, or could it be another problem. I can open the c: but it shows nothing, like all the files are hidden.

I think the problem is you've chosen FAT32 rather than FAT16 - I think (but I'm not certain) that the Linux kernels only support FAT16.

If you solve that problem, yes, you would have to change /etc/fstab: you would replace the ntfs in the type column with vfat. If the type column shows auto though, leave it like it is as it should be able to auto-detect.

The Linux kernel does support both FAT16 and FAT32 filesystems (read for yourself here: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html).
Post your /etc/fstab contents to see if there's where the trouble is.

? mount -t vfat /dev/hd(x) /blabla?
did u try that?

/dev/hda3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C auto ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/dvdram /media/dvdram subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0


I edit the file to say auto though also when I tried to open it with vi it said that I had to fstab.swp files so I deleted one, know how do I know it works.

the line
/dev/hda1 /windows/C auto ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
change auto to vfat (if u have fat32) or ntfs (if u hav ntfs)

#man mount, to see the excact type, cause i run freebsd for the moment. i blast the suse staff, so i dont remember the name

I edited fstab with vi and saved it. This is the file now:

/dev/hda3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/dvdram /media/dvdram subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0


What am I doing wrong? doesn't the ro after the vfat stand for read only, defeating the original reason for the conversion to fat.

Also my tty1,2,3,4,5,6 consoles like when I switch by pressing crtl+alt+f1 etc... my screen goes to *hit. I has a scrambled color picture looks like abstract atari graphics.

Should I be posting in the suse forum?

Also when I reboot I get the atari syndrome and cannot see the verbose mode

for frisbie :
#mount_ntfs -m 750 -C iso8859-7 /dev/ad1s6 /mnt/wini

in fstab could be
/dev/ad1s6 /mnt/wini -t ntfs -m 750 -C iso8859-7

just test it from a console , what i said before. and if iit works, put it in the proper way to the fstab

a line in my fstab is
/dev/ad1s2f /var/ftp/pub/bsdf ufs rw 2 2

hey

take a look in manual page of mount

cause the options u pass may be wrong (uid gid etc)