mounting problems

tsitras · 10-19-2003, 08:49 PM

Hello there. I would like to know how can i set the system to automount hda1, hda5, CDRW,DVD to win,koino,cdrw,dvd respectively. The hda1 and hda5 are NTFS. The DVD and CDRW are LITEON brand. I would like to set them to automount.

coldy · 10-19-2003, 09:27 PM

There isn't any dependency about the brand of your hardware.
It will nice to see the manual of "fstab" and "mount" too. For NTFS I am not sure is it securely to mount it with write wrights, but the most important for you is located in these two manuals. There are the file systems that you can mount, how you can mount them etc.

SeSchae · 10-20-2003, 05:03 AM

Neverever mount NTFS-"windows"-partitions with "change-rights"... wirting to them will probably mess the NTFS-Rights-Table up and you can forget your Windows...

When you want to transfer data from Linux to Windows and other way round. Try it with a Fat-partition...

for Automount set noauto to auto in /etc/fstab

tsitras · 10-20-2003, 07:01 AM

I do have a hard drive split into two partitions, both of them NTFS. The first partition has th OS winXP.I would like to mount it for read-only. The second partition has no Operating system. It is used for storage purposes. That is the one that i would like to mount with read and write permissions. Could u tell me the exact commands to do that once and for all, for both of them. Automount.

SeSchae · 10-20-2003, 07:45 AM

First of all, be sure that the module NTFS is installed (modconf)

create 2 Dirs /xpsystem and /storage
then open /etc/fstab as root and edit it

/dev/hda1 /xpsystem ntfs auto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/hda2 /storage ntfs auto,users,exec 0 0

this should work... but remember accessing and changing NTFS-partition could corrupt the NTFS-rights-Table so accessing from Windows could become impossible...

praveenk · 10-20-2003, 07:49 AM

You can try this

/dev/hda1 /win ntfs auto,ro 0 0
/dev/hda5 /kiono ntfs auto,ro 0 0
/dev/hdax /cdrw iso9665 ro,noauto 0 0

where x in hdx may be b, c, d depending on your disk number of CDRW.

I have no idea about DVD file system.

tsitras · 10-20-2003, 08:36 AM

I, as root, tried the following and saved it in the /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 /xpsystem ntfs auto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/hda2 /storage ntfs auto,users,exec 0 0
then i did a computer restart. As root i went to /mnt and i have seen the directories xpsytem and storage. when i did cd xpsystem and cd storage, nothing came up. Any thoughts?

tsitras · 10-20-2003, 09:02 AM

My fstab is the following:
/dev/db5 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/hdb1 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrw iso9665 rw,auto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/xpsystem ntfs auto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/storage ntfs auto,users,exec 0 0

I do not have a floppy in my system. Apparently i cannot access the /mnt/storage, /mnt/win, and /mnt/cdrw. Also the DVD is a separate drive and i cannot see it in the list.
Could someone help?