[SOLVED] Problems Mounting FTFS Hard Drive

[yorkie107]

Hi

I'm new to Linux and I'm having problems when I try to access my second hard drive it say it couldn't mount it I get this error message

libhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but dbuserror was not set.

process 11084: applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_connection_close() docs. this is a bug in the application.

error: device /dev/hdb1 is not removable

error: could not execute pmount

I have tried to follow the instructions given by Devils Casper in a previous post but because of my limited knowledge of Linux I'm unable to get it to work if any one could help with simpler instructions I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks

Yorkie 107

[iwanabeguru]

try mount it from command line in read only mode than we can go further.

login as root

you must make a mount point for each partition, as i see you want mount the first partiton on the second hard disk.

so create the mount point

mkdir /mnt/win1

and mount ...
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win1

in this case you will have full acces to the drive but only in read-only mode because the ntfs driver in the kernel only can read the ntfs file system.

if it don't works give us the output of "ls -l /dev/hd*" and "ls -l /dev/sd*"

good luck

ps: oh and correct the name of your topic "FTFS" is seems to a very exotic file sytem

[yorkie107]

Hi
thanks for your reply when I mount my drive as you say, it mounts the hard drive OK but it then displays a message saying -
The folder contents could not be displayed
You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "win1".
so the question is, is it me not doing it right or how do I change the permission so I can access the drive.

Thanks yorkie107

[iwanabeguru]

Do you mean that you can not browse the drive as root?

try this

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win1 -o umask=0

and post the output of " ls -l /dev/hd* " and " ls -l /mnt "