Mounting problems

AGazzaz · 02-01-2007, 10:45 AM

Hello Mandriva users,
I am back after 3 versions of suse but i am facing some problems
I have mounted my drives using the mount command

Code:

Fat 32 drives
mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /windows/D
NTFS drive
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda6 /windows/E

now all the drives are Read only and the NTFS drive in inaccessible

what can i do

nightshade_1977 · 02-01-2007, 11:10 AM

try mounting like this

Fat 32 drive

Quote:

mount /dev/hda5 /windows/D -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,umask=000

NTFS drive

Quote:

mount /dev/hda6 /windows/E -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222

if you want to auto mount on boot
add these lines to fstab

Quote:

/dev/hda6 /windows/E ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0

of course the NTFS drive is going to be Read Only that cannot be helped

AGazzaz · 02-01-2007, 11:39 AM

Thank you for the very fast reply
buti think i need to unmount the drives first
how?

I found it

Code:

umount C -t vfat

umount NOT uNmount

and thank you nightshade_1977 it worked

marietechie · 02-06-2007, 02:51 PM

Quote:

now all the drives are Read only and the NTFS drive in inaccessible

what can i do

Try going to the Mandriva Linux Control Center:

MLCC -> Mount Points -> Create, delete and resize hard disk partitions

Unmount and remount your drive(s). You may also want to reformat them if you are able. (caution: You'll lose everything on the drive!)

This worked for me when my FAT32 partition was not staying mounted. I had nothing on the drive yet, so I did everything. Works fine now.

sco1984 · 02-06-2007, 11:46 PM

You have normal hard disk or SCSI or SATA ? Usually if you have normal ATA hard disk, Mandriva 2007 automatically mounts Windows partitions for you. I never had this problem. You might done something wrong while installing Mandriva Linux i guess.