NTFS Permissions
 

I have been focusing on converting to linux for quite a while after dealing with the job of maintaining windows Enterprises for years and I have finally made the leap.

I loaded SUSE 10.1, during install I disconnected my NTFS Data storage drive, [[internal 80 gig ide]] and procedded to load. Upon completion I reconnected the drive, and logged in fine, and began the tinkering process, but the data drive shows up as unmounted. when I try to mount, as myself or as root, the reponse is that I have insufficient priveledges. I looked in fstab and mtab and the drive does not show up in either and it would not let me alter the files [[guessing that I could copy one from the list and alter it to match with proper hdb distinction]].

I am not too linux command savvy, though I am on the golden road to unlimited linux devotion, and would love to learn about how to fix this issue first, and then more as time rolls on.

I would greatly appreciate some assistance.
Rugger

did you make a mount point for it? if not, as root run 'mkdir /mnt/folder' where folder is whatever you want to call it.. i usually call it the letter associated with it in windows, ie C, or D.

how many partitions does this harddrive have? and which one do you want to use? im assuming this is the primary slave IDE device. also im assuming it has just one big partition, in which case the device file representing this drive's specific partition would be: /dev/hdb1.

youll need to use the mount command to mount this device file somewhere. ie, try: mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/D -t ntfs -o ro
if you have substituted your variables (device file and mount point) and you recieve an error, post the output. be sure to run the command as root too. hope that works. you seem like youll be able to figure what device it is, and possibly the error out yourself! good luck! check 'man mount' to learn more about the command.

also, the ntfs driver for linux supports reading perfectly, but writing is not recommended and can screw up the partition. thats why its good to specify '-o ro' to tell mount to mount it read only.