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I reinstalled SUSE 10 last night and when looking at it now I saw that windows/c (my Windows partition) isn't visible. How do I fix that?

assuming it's still really there, add an entry to /etc/fstab, e.g.

Code:

/dev/hda1 /windows/c auto defaults 0 0

Brilliant, thanks. It's still there, on it now in fact (I know, heresy, but my girlfriend wanted the computer). It's on the main bootdisk though, so would I use hda0 instead?

The number refers to which partition it is on. There is no '0' partition

Example,
hd - this is usually drives on an ide bus
a - this means it is the primary master
1 - the partition number

So something like 'hda7' means it is an ide device, its is the primary master and the partition number is 7.

'hdb1' would be and ide device, it is the primary slave and the partition number is 1.

But when you get to something like a cdrom drive you don't get the numbers.
Example, a cdrom drive on the ide bus at secondary master would be 'hdc'.

To find which one is your windows partition as root do 'fdisk -l'. This will give you a list of the partitions on your harddrives. In the column labeled 'System' it will tell you what type it is. Windows will be either a NTFS or FAT type.

:)

Aha... Thanks. Learn something new every day with this Linux. I'll get this Linux up and running. It's not easy but when it works it's great.

Glad I could help.

:)

Changed it and nothing happened. :( I changed 'hda1' to 'sda1' as that's how they all seem to be referred to as (tried it with 'hda' first though). Should I change something else?

(And the Windows drive is HPFS/NTFS.)

Could you post the output of 'fdisk -l' and the contents of fstab, then we can see how things are looking.

:)

Here's fstab:

Code:

/dev/sdb1            /                    reiserfs  acl,user_xattr        1 1

/dev/sdb3            swap                swap      defaults              0 0

/dev/sda1            /windows/c          auto      defaults              0 0

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/sdb2            /data1              auto      noauto,user          0 0

/dev/sdb4            /data2              auto      noauto,user          0 0

/dev/dvd            /media/dvd          subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

/dev/cdrom          /media/cdrom        subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

none                /subdomain      subdomainfs noauto        0 0

The third line is the one I added.

And here's fdisk -l:

Code:

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sda1  *          1      24320  195350368+  7  HPFS/NTFS



Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sdb1              1        2611    20972826  83  Linux

/dev/sdb2            2612        5222    20972857+  83  Linux

/dev/sdb3            5223        5484    2104515  82  Linux swap / Solaris

/dev/sdb4            5485        8095    20972857+  83  Linux

:confused: well fstab looks correct.

Have you created the mount point for it. In other words if you do 'ls -alh' in '/' are is there a directory called 'windows' then inside that one 'c'

:)

Nope, there's no windows folder at all.

That is where the problem now lies. You need to create the directories to mount to.

:)

So just go in and do "New folder" and call one "windows" and inside create one called "c"?

Now it's showed up, but I can't make it accessible to my default user as it's "on read-only disk".

Thanks for your help, Snowtigger. It's much appreciated.

Yes that is correct. You should do this as root and make ensure they have the permissions of Owner=RWX and the Group and Other=RX. The owner and group should be set to root.

To do this from the cli do 'mkdir -p /windows/c'

:)