Transfering data? Help

[Dev]

I am a beginning linux user. I have recently installed Mandrake Linux 9.2, running KDE 3.1. Everything seems to be running great, recognized all my hardware. I know that linux cannot read my other NTFS hard drive. Is there any way to transfer data from that hard drive to my other hard drive that now runs Linux. I suppose I could burn it to CDs and then load it back. It is nearly 10GB of data, so I hopped I could avoid it. Any help will be appreciated.

[Dillinger]

It most certainly can read your other NTFS drive, it just can't write to it. Check in the /mnt directory, the Windows partition should already be mounted. If its not, open up Konsole or any terminal you have and do the following:

mkdir /home/username/Windows
su root
password:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdxy /home/username/Windows

Note the hdxy is the drive and partition the windows partition is on, ie hdb2 would be the second partition on the second drive. I'm not sure how to give it regular user permissions when mounting in that way, only when using fstab. Regardless if you're just copying stuff over, copy everything over and then run the following commands:

su root again
chmod -R 744 /home/username/folderyoucopiedto
chown -R username /home/username/folderyoucopiedto
chgrp -R users /home/username/folderyoucopiedto

Now you can access those files as your regular user.

[Dev]

Ok, so I do the first part and I get the following:

Usage: mount -V                 : print version
       mount -h                 : print this help
       mount                    : list mounted filesystems
       mount -l                 : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
       mount -a [-t|-O] ...     : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
       mount device             : mount device at the known place
       mount directory          : mount known device here
       mount -t type dev dir    : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
       mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
       mount --move olddir newdir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using  -L label  or by uuid, using  -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p num].
For many more details, say  man 8 mount .

So it seems that it has mounted, I think. However, I do not see it on the desktop or in the home directory. Should it be there? Please bear with me I am a beginning linux user. Any help will be appreciated. Also, are there any websites with FAQs or tutorials for beginning linux users like myself?

[Dolda2000]

No, it hasn't mounted. The fact that mount displays its usage to you is the indication that you typed something wrong. Can you copy and paste from the terminal exactly what you wrote?

[Dev]

Here is what I am typing now.

[root@localhost devin]# mount -t ntfs dev/hda /home/devin/Windows
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda, or too many mounted file systems

That exact line used to get me to that other thing in my previous post, now it just does that. I type hda in there because the windows drive is actually the master drive and I am running linux on the slave drive. Is this correct?

[Dillinger]

You need to include the partition number, ie hda1.

[Dev]

Thanks again for your help guys!

Unfortunatley, I have another error.

[root@localhost devin]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /home/devin/windows
mount: mount point /home/devin/windows does not exist

I have tried this same line up to hda12, I am assuming that it is not past 12 partitions. The entire drive is used for windows so there should be only one partition on it.

[Dev]

Ok, I figured it out. Just didn't realize that it already mounted as mnt/windows. Thanks for the help guys.

[Mystic_Slayer]

I've got the same problem:

I did this: mount -t ntfs /dev/hde1 /disks/C

But know my disk is Read Only File System.

Also I used fstab:

# /etc/fstab -- static file system information
# auto generation: on
# generated by: /sbin/etcdev2fstab
#
# NOTE: to make this file readable, it has been formatted for 132 columns
#
#<device> <mountpoint> <fstype> <options> <dbg> <pass>
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 / ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 /boot ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /disks/C ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 /disks/D ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 /disks/E ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target1/lun0/part1 /disks/F ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 /home ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev,exec,user,noauto,async,unhide 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 auto rw,nosuid,nodev,exec,user,noauto,async 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0666 0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 none swap sw 0 0

How can I change this, because you should be writing to it I think.

[Dolda2000]

Well, there isn't much to do about that. Linux doesn't have write support for NTFS right now.