external hddrive NTFS read

palidang · 10-07-2005, 08:04 AM

I have a 320 gig external harddrive connected via firewire where i store music on an ntfs partition and i have a fat32 partition so that i can transfer files between linux and windows. Suse recognizes both devices very nicely and i can write to the fat32, however it will not even let me read the ntfs partition. has anybody had this problem?

thanks

abisko00 · 10-07-2005, 08:13 AM

Can you read the NTFS drive as root? What are the error messages?
Maybe this helps: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/0...iteaccess.html

the nomad · 10-07-2005, 08:13 AM

Have you tried accessing it as root?
I have a similar problems with an external usb disk + ntfs on fc4 (can mount device, cannot access as user, ro access only as root)

edit = abisko was faster and more accurate

palidang · 10-07-2005, 11:44 AM

Ok

when i log in as root i can access it. but when i log onto the regular user i have to use file manager super user to look, but i want to link a media program so i can listen to my music all the time. any suggestions?

thanks

Micro420 · 10-07-2005, 11:47 AM

Had this same problem (internal NTFS hard drive, though). If the link that
abisko00 gave doesn't work, then try what I did. Hopefully it work.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=369241

You need to add this in your /etc/fstab (this is MY fstab, so modify your /dev and /media points to whatever yours is)

Code:

/dev/hda1       /media/windows  ntfs    nls=utf8,umask=0222 0       0