Why does my XP partition never mount?

Kramer · 09-25-2003, 12:28 PM

In my etc/fstab/ I have in the option

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

and every time it gives me the error message

WARNING bad format on line 5 of /etc/fstab/

Then something about the command isnt recognized by the filseystem. Any ideas?

acid_kewpie · 09-25-2003, 12:54 PM

because that's totally wrong.... that is a console command and not an /etc/fstab entry!

try:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults 0 0

doesn't it strike you as odd that it looks nothing like the other entries at all?

Kramer · 09-25-2003, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by acid_kewpie
because that's totally wrong.... that is a console command and not an /etc/fstab entry!

try:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults 0 0

doesn't it strike you as odd that it looks nothing like the other entries at all?

Well it did, but i was told to change it to what you see above, because every time it gave me a "bad supermount" error, and I could never figure that out either. Ill give that a quick try.

Kramer · 09-25-2003, 01:10 PM

ok that works. Now it just wont let me into the windows directory. How do I get in there?

Now the only error message I get is when ACPI starts it says "cant find directory /proc/acpi/events" I know where /proc is but I cant create an ACPI directory there to put the ACPI/events in. Any suggestions on that one?

Also, is gkrellm the only system monitor out there, because it doesnt tell temp and a bunch of other stuff that is probably conected with ACPI support. Thanks for the help.

J.W. · 09-25-2003, 01:33 PM

If you can't access your Windows directory, it's probably because of permissions. All you probably need to do is to do a chmod on the directory to suit your needs. -- J.W.

Kramer · 09-25-2003, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by J.W.
If you can't access your Windows directory, it's probably because of permissions. All you probably need to do is to do a chmod on the directory to suit your needs. -- J.W.

I can access it, but i have to go through SU in a shell to do it, which is pointless. Once i close the shell, i can no longsr access it. How do I set permissions so I can do it without doing this?

J.W. · 09-25-2003, 03:04 PM

When you SU, you are accessing it as the root user, which always has full privs. To permit permanent access to a file or a directory, you can run the chmod command as I indicated. That will set the permissions to whatever you specify.

I recommend running the following command: man chmod

That will bring up the instructional pages about how to use the chmod command. Read and learn - if you get stuck I can help you out. -- J.W.

megaspaz · 09-25-2003, 08:21 PM

chmod doesn't work that way for me on my windows partitions. i can't change the permissions at all once a windows partition is mounted. what might be a better solution for you is to add options to the fstab entry.

something like:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs auto,umask=0222, ro 0 0

the umask will set the permissions of the windows partition as 555 (read and enter permissions for all) when the windows partition is mounted.

J.W. · 09-25-2003, 10:21 PM

Correction: Please disregard my post.

I bow to the superior information from megaspaz. Sorry for any confusion/wasted time my comments may have caused. In general, access problems to a given directory are typically caused by permission issues, which is what prompted me to make my original post, however, megaspaz is correct that Win vs. Linux access issues are a different animal. Regards, -- J.W.

megaspaz · 09-26-2003, 12:31 AM

well in all fairness i didn't know that if changing permissions on a windows partition was just universally not allowed or distro specific. all i knew was that chmod never worked for me on my windows partition.