I am trying to mount an ntfs partition, but it tells me the mountpoint does not exist.
What mountpoint should I use?
I tried disk.
Flash drive mounts at disk.

Mountpoint is the target directory on which you mount the "device".

If it says mountpoint does not exist it is telling you the directory doesn't exist.

Usual mount command would be something like:

mount device mountpoint

To see if the target exists type:
ls -ld mountpoint

If it doesn't then simply type:
mkdir mountpoint

e.g. If your mount command was "mount /dev/sdb /usr/mydir" then the mountpoint is "/usr/mydir". Type "ls -ld mydir" to see if it exists. If not then type "mkdir /usr/mydir".

If you've got FUSE and the ntfs package installed it's easy.

1) Find out what is the actual device of your piece of hardware is --for example say /dev/sr0.

2) create a file in any accessible directory and call it say /usbstick. Ensure it has read / write accesses for the users who need to read from / write to the device.

3) as root type mount -t ntfs-3g o=rw /dev/sr0 /usbstick

voila -- you now have read AND WRITE access to your NTFS files.

FUSE i think in any case is standard in all SUSE kernels since 10.1 and I think the ntfs package is also installed by default. If it isn't on your system then just install it.

The above mount also works for Windows partitions and external USB NTFS formatted disk drives.

Cheers

-K