Hi,
I need help. How and when it happened I do not know. But some days ago I tried to copy some files from my NTFS disk and I cant. The disk is empty (really it is not). I have 3 NTFS disks on my system and one with Suse on it. Until now I could normally access all my disks. Now I can access them but there are no files/directories on any one of them (as seen from SUSE).And in my fstab there are entries which I do not know how they come there. Here is my fstab file:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_6L040J2_362124625531-part2 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_6L040J2_362124625531-part3 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/dm-3 /media/Moj_Disk ntfs-3g defaults,locale=sl_SI.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/dm-4 /media/Programi ntfs-3g defaults,locale=sl_SI.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/dm-5 /media/SISTEM ntfs-3g defaults,locale=sl_SI.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AADS-00L4B1_WD-WCAUH1197644-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AADS-00L4B1_WD-WCAUK1164319-part1 /windows/D ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y160P0_Y47HM58E-part1 /windows/E ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_6L040J2_362124625531-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0


Entries /dev/dm-3,4 and 5 are not to be there.

I do not kbnow if I can remove them without making some problems when booting the system.

Hi,
Did u try mounting the ntfs drives manually, I think in ur case, "/windows/c and d" are only ntfs drives.
do you have a dual boot (windows and suse)??

hi wjdoss,
yes I mounted them and yes all 3 drives (c, d and e) are ntfs drives. I have suse on a separate drive. As I said, I have no idea what happened, but I was able to access files in my drives normally until now. My fstab was normal, without those /dev/dm-x drives. Now , when I open windows in dolphin, I can see my drives and I can access them, but there are no folders in any of them.

HI riba,
can u give me the capture of "df -h".

also "ls -ls /dev/sd*"

Hi,

here are the results:

df -h
Dat. sist. Vel. Upor Prost Upo% Priklopljeno na
/dev/sdb2 15G 6,7G 6,7G 51% /
udev 1,4G 364K 1,4G 1% /dev
/dev/sdb3 21G 14G 6,1G 70% /home
/dev/dm-3 466G 242G 225G 52% /media/Moj_Disk
/dev/dm-4 466G 45G 422G 10% /media/Programi
/dev/dm-5 153G 94G 60G 62% /media/SISTEM
bogomir@linux-b63n:~>
ls -ls /dev/sd*
linux-b63n:/home/bogomir # ls -ls /dev/sd*
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sda
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sda1
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sdb
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sdb1
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 18 apr 15 07:38 /dev/sdb2
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 19 apr 15 07:38 /dev/sdb3
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sdc
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 33 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sdc1
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 48 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sdd
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 49 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sdd1
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 64 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sde
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 65 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sde1
linux-b63n:/home/bogomir #

linux-b63n:/home/bogomir # ls -ls /dev/sd*
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sda
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sda1
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sdb
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sdb1
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 18 apr 15 07:38 /dev/sdb2
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 19 apr 15 07:38 /dev/sdb3
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sdc
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 33 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sdc1
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 48 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sdd
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 49 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sdd1
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 64 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sde
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 65 apr 15 09:38 /dev/sde1
linux-b63n:/home/bogomir #

If you are seeing nothing, your computer isn't mounting the NTFS drives and/or you for some reason don't have permission to view the NTFS drives. Go into YaST, check the mount options. Make sure there isn't any user control options and make sure that YaST says it is supposed to mount at startup.