where are my windows drives (suse)
hi can you help me just installed suse9.1 after i did an clean xp reinstall and
i have everything working it seems in both systems. I knew that i would need a partition to swap files between the two systems so i have set out the following partitons: main portion of hd is ntfs 99gb~ - extended 16gb~ 10gb~ reiser suse 1gb~swap 5gb fat 32 (the partiton that needs to be writeable by both systems) the problem is that i can't find the ntfs partion and view it's files and i have set up the mount point of the fat32 as /mnt/hda5 but this is read only.:confused: so if you could help me i would be grateful. windows xp /Suse 9.1 gurb boot manager 2500+ amd athalon 512mbram 114 samsung hd (120 unformated) need any more info i will be happy to supply it. |
You could help us by posting your /etc/fstab (contains information on how to mount drives) and the output of 'fdisk -l', which shows all partitions that are being recognised. For the later command you need to be root.
In general: you may need to set the option umask=002 or umask=000 in /etc/fstab to get write access on fat32 partitions, since fat32 cannot deal with Linux/Unix permissions. |
here we go contence of fstab
/dev/hda6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda7 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620, gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid, nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 00 /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid, nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 00 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid, sync 00 /dev/hda5 /mediahda5 vfat defaults 00 there sorry about the formatting hope this is of some help. |
So there are no entries for your NTFS partitions. That's why we need the output of fdisk -l (small "L") to see how to create the correct entries.
Try to add umask=000 right after defaults in the last line: Code:
/dev/hda5 /media/hda5 vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0 |
sorry but how do you enter the command fdisk -i is it in windows, dos or linux ?
Thanks for that code for the fat 32 though works like a dream. |
Linux and fdisk -l not -i (see above posts)! Be root!
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ok here is all the data from that command thanks for the command to make the fat 32 drive writeable worked perfectly
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 12407 99659196 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 12408 14596 17583142+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 12408 13060 5245191 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda6 13061 14432 11020558+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 14433 14595 1309266 82 Linux swap |
Try this:
create the mountpoint (if not existent): open console Code:
user@linux:~> su add the following line to /etc/fstab: Code:
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs ro,auto,user,umask=0002,exec 0 0 |
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