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11-21-2004, 10:03 AM
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Location: UK
Distribution: ubuntu 10.04+ distro hopping
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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.  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.
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11-21-2004, 10:20 AM
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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.
Last edited by abisko00; 11-21-2004 at 11:06 AM.
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11-21-2004, 10:59 AM
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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.
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11-21-2004, 11:13 AM
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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
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11-23-2004, 12:39 PM
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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.
Last edited by netsurf; 11-23-2004 at 12:41 PM.
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11-23-2004, 12:51 PM
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Linux and fdisk -l not -i (see above posts)! Be root!
Last edited by abisko00; 11-23-2004 at 12:52 PM.
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11-25-2004, 01:18 PM
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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
Last edited by netsurf; 11-25-2004 at 01:20 PM.
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11-26-2004, 02:58 AM
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Try this:
create the mountpoint (if not existent):
open console
Code:
user@linux:~> su
Password:
linux:/home/user # mkdir /media/hda1
add the following line to /etc/fstab:
Code:
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs ro,auto,user,umask=0002,exec 0 0
On next reboot, the partition should be mouted automatically.
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