Portable WIn32 hdd

rottmanj · 07-21-2003, 03:41 AM

I have a firewire hard drive that I use to move my stuff around from class to home and what not. I just installed linux and I am trying to get my drive up and running. I can see the drive under Harddrake it shows it as a partition. sba. And I mounted the drive to /mnt/windows/. But when I go to that folder I don't see any of my files there. Is there something that I am doing wrong.

acid_kewpie · 07-21-2003, 03:45 AM

does "mount" show that it is actually mounted? what format is the device?

rottmanj · 07-21-2003, 03:52 AM

I am not sure if it is mounted. When I go into the mount point manager in the mandrake control console it shows in the gray box this
/mnt/windows/
When I go to the /mnt/ folder there is a folder there called windows.
The format is ntfs

rottmanj · 07-21-2003, 05:47 AM

Ok I got the drive mounted, but it will not let me view anything inside of the drive. I have changed the umask permissions and it still will not let me view what is inside of it. Any ideas.

acid_kewpie · 07-21-2003, 05:52 AM

can you see anythign as root? if you're using fat32 or somethign then you can not set the umask permissions on a per file basis and they need to be globally set as and when you mount the device.

mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/windows -o umask=000

rottmanj · 07-21-2003, 08:05 AM

Thank you for your help. I got it up and running. I found a faq online that showed me step by step on how to do this.