View NTFS partition?

ajbrouwe · 07-14-2004, 10:23 AM

Alright...so I"m now themed, have the internet, and sound- but, no mp3's to play! They all dwell on my NTFS partition.

I had heard a rumor that I could be required to convert it to a FAT32...is there any way to avoid this and just mount it? I don't really want to copy all the files over to the linux partition, just play straight from windows.

I'm running slack 10 with the 2.4 kernel. Help!

Thanks guys, you're awesome~

Andrew

Ungluun · 07-14-2004, 10:27 AM

You can mount it, and then read from it, but not safely write to it.
Just edit you /etc/fstab and you should be able to play your music. If you want to write to that disk, you should format it as fat32 if you want to be able to read it in windows, or a linuxfilesystem if you're not going to use windows anymore.

SolarBear · 07-14-2004, 10:28 AM

No need to convert to FAT32 (is that even possible ?)

Just add your partition to your /etc/fstab. Search the forums, this has been answered numerous times (heck, that's how I found how to do it

, just search for "mount ntfs partition" or something similar.

Side note : it's actually the first time I'm able to help somebody. Yay !

ajbrouwe · 07-14-2004, 10:50 AM

I"m glad you were able to help. Honestly, this is my first linux install, and, with this site, has been very successful.

How do I edit files like that? I had heard use pico as a text editor, but have never tried.

Andrew

netmask · 07-14-2004, 11:08 AM

There are many text editors out there, but out of the most popular ones you'd have vi, pico and joe.

Vi is nice though you need to read some documentation to know the commands. Pico is simple and effective and so is joe.

My personnal fav is pico. It's only a matter of typing pico /etc/fstab, adding the line, ctrl+o to save and ctrl+x to quit.

ajbrouwe · 07-14-2004, 12:24 PM

Here is my fstab:

Code:

/dev/hdc5         /ext2               defaults         1   1
/dev/hdc1         /Windows        ntfs        ro               1   0
/dev/hdc6         /Stuff               ntfs        ro               1   0
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom      iso9660     noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0           /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts             /dev/pts          devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc                /proc               proc        defaults         0   0

It looks like it loads, eh? Now, how do I go about viewing and reading the mp3's from it?

Andrew

SolarBear · 07-14-2004, 01:05 PM

After you've modified your fstab, just type mount -a as root and, if your fstab entries are correct, you should be able to access your partition.

Also, for text editors, if you're using a window manager, each WM has a text editor you can use with it : gedit for Gnome, kedit or kwrite for KDE. They're more "Notepad-like".

ajbrouwe · 07-14-2004, 01:38 PM

I'm confused as to what I need to edit in fstab- the above was an output from it, what should I change to have my "stuff" partition readable?

Thanks for the advice- I've figured pico out.

If it appears in fstab, is it good to go?

Andrew

blk96gt · 07-14-2004, 02:09 PM

If you want the partition mounted at boot just make it look like this:
/dev/hdc6 /Stuff ntfs user,ro,umask=222 1 0
If you dont want it to mount at boot just add noauto in front of user.

Smokey · 07-14-2004, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ajbrouwe
I'm confused as to what I need to edit in fstab- the above was an output from it, what should I change to have my "stuff" partition readable?

Thanks for the advice- I've figured pico out.

If it appears in fstab, is it good to go?

Andrew

/dev/hdc1 /Stuff ntfs ro,user,utf8,umask=022_0_2 < replace the underscores for spaces

keefaz · 07-14-2004, 02:14 PM

Hey, beware of the sixth field which may give to fsck the bad idea to check the ntfs partition at boot. (fsck does not exist for ntfs)

do instead :
/dev/hdc1 /Stuff ntfs ro,user,utf8,umask=0222 0 0