[SOLVED] Mounting Problems

[nujinini]

Hello Everybody,

May I ask for some help on how to make my Mandriva partition mount sda5 w/c is my storage bin partition? My xp/Mint/Fedora can access the sda5 but it seems that Mandriva does not allow it as easy.

I hope the following data can help

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc5e3f820

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1913    15366141    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            1914       30260   227697277+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3           30261       30401     1132582+  12  Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda5            1914       21054   153750051    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6           23034       23188     1245006   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7           21978       23033     8482288+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8           21055       21977     7413966   83  Linux
/dev/sda9           23189       30260    56805808+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
[root@localhost ~]#

Mandriva is sda9 and storage is sda5.
sda7 - Mint
sda8 - Fedora
sda1 - XP

Thanks a lot!

EDIT: Additional Info

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/fstab
# Entry for /dev/sda9 :
UUID=a7538623-3ee8-45dd-b214-82d458d59273 / ext3 noatime 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=bbb9d844-13eb-4137-baee-036e0d8933a7 swap swap defaults 0 0
[root@localhost ~]#

UUID=bbb9d844-13eb-4137-baee-036e0d8933a7 swap swap defaults 0 0
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/mtab
/dev/sda9 / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
[root@localhost ~]#

[tpl]

> mount NTFS partition under linus

NTFS is not a native linux filesystem type. I recommend installing
the suite "ntfstools" that includes a command like this

"ntfsmount /dev/sda5 /mnt"

[nujinini]

Sorry I accidentally double clicked. Kindly refer to the other message.

[nujinini]

> mount NTFS partition under linus

NTFS is not a native linux filesystem type. I recommend installing
the suite "ntfstools" that includes a command like this

"ntfsmount /dev/sda5 /mnt"

Hello,

Thanks. I just got the problem solved just now when I googled the error message and it lead me to a site

"cannot get volume.fstype.alternative" Error | Mandriva Forum

medo3891 wrote:
 now The internal ntfs partitions aren't mounted at all, so open the Mandriva control centre>local disks> manage disk partitions, select each partition in turn then click "Mount Point", and create a mount point in /media, e.g. /media/whatever. Then click "Mount".

When you quit the app you'll be prompted if you want to "save the modifications to /etc/fstab" select yes. (you might need to log out > log in or reboot the machine).

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Much appreciated.