I am having an issue with my secondary drive that stores all my files on it, it is a sata drive seagate i am using fedora 6 latest core i see if i go to system administration logical volume management i see the drive so i know linux knows it is there but i cant gain access to it (i.e read it write to it take files from it etc) any help would be greatly appreciated ( i searched the crap outa google and here and still couldnt find anything on it that would resolve the issue, if there is a resolution already point me to the web page plz)oh sytem specs are a7n8x deluxe, hard drive sata seagate barracuda sil 3112a thanks in advance

Have you mounted it? You have to mount it first with a command like:

su
mount -t <filesystem-type> <mount directory> <partition>

eg

mount -t ext3 /mnt/<some-directory> /dev/hdb1

fdisk will show you the partition of the drive; that will go in place of the 'hdb1' above.

well i tried what you said and i get this error





[root@c-67-186-246-46 xax]# mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0). Please report to ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sf.net!
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS logfile is unclean. Choose one action:
Boot Windows and shutdown it cleanly, or if you have a removable
device then click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows
taskbar notification area before disconnecting it.
Or
Run 'ntfsfix' on Linux unless you have Vista, then mount NTFS with
the 'force' option read-write, or with the 'ro' option read-only.
Or
Mount the NTFS volume with the 'ro' option in read-only mode.
[root@c-67-186-246-39 xax]#



i have installed the rpm for support with ntfs through fedora 6 stil doesnt see it ?????



oh this doesnt have any windows on it just files that i store for music movies etc etc has 1 partition and is in ntfs format thanks if you can fix this

How did you get it formatted in NTFS? Was it in another computer? It sounds like it is asking you to connect it back to a Windows machine and verify that you can open files. Then shutdown Windows normally.

FYI, the error is not stating that there is Windows on that drive, just that it was last accessed by Windows and then Windows did not close properly... i.e., power loss, lockup, etc.

It also suggests trying to mount it as read-only. If it was me, I would do something like this. (Not at a linux machine so the code may be wrong, but you should get the idea)
Just make sure you have a /mnt/NTFS directory created first:
I would not mount an NTFS drive with write permissions simply because I don't trust it. It took a very long time for NTFS write capabilities in Linux, which to me means that it is very complex.

Anyway, let us know how you get on with it.

I would suggest to solve this without wasting a lot of time. Plug the hard drive into another windows computer and move the data to dvd or cd.

Reconect the drive to your fedora box and format it to ext2 or ext3. Then put your data back on it.