Accessing troubles

[relentlessfight]

Alright, now that I have mounted my windows partition (using mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win)

I can view the files from Konsole, but when I try to access them with lets say amaroK the folder has a lock on it.

How do I remove this lock so I can access them?

I have tried to mount without the "-t ntfs" but when i tried to umount the first one it says device busy. I'm assuming thats becasue it scans the drive.

[devils casper]

Hi !!!

add this line to /etc/fstab file........

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win ntfs defaults,ro,umask=0 0 0

save and reboot....... it will automount windows partition and all users can access it in read and write mode




... casper ....

[relentlessfight]

Where would the /ect/fstab file be located at?

[fingal]

Where would the /ect/fstab file be located at?

Ahh well ... that is the location. /etc is a directory and fstab is a file inside that directory.

You need to open it with a text editor as root. For example - using a terminal:

su
<your_password>
cd /etc/fstab

Then you need to invoke some sort of editor. One of these for example:
kate fstab
vim fstab
nano fstab

Write to the file and save it. Exit from being root and you should be fine.

[devils casper]

cd /etc/fstab

oooops ... fstab is not a folder......

$ su -
enter root password
$ kate /etc/fstab



.... casper ....

[fingal]

oooops ... fstab is not a folder......

$ su -
enter root password
$ kate /etc/fstab



.... casper ....

Ooooops! Just testing ... Sorry for the mistake.

[devils casper]

Hi fingal !!!

i know its typo.........



.... casper ....

[relentlessfight]

Alright, I have done all this. and i can now view the folder in amaroK, but i have run into another problem. The folders on the drive are not there, and it seems like everytime i restart the files in /mnt/win disappear!

[devils casper]

Hi !!

LInux does not have write support for NTFS. its read only.......... you can read and write in FAT32 partitions........


check this article for writing in NTFS ........
paste the output of this command.....

$ fdisk -l ...( its small 'L' and you must be root to execute it )



.... casper ....

[relentlessfight]

It really doesn't matter to me if it's mounted as NTFS or FAT..haha just as long as I can access them! Here is the output:

[root@localhost t0x1c_zer0]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10333 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 8805 66565768+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 8806 10333 11551680 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 8806 9617 6138688+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 9618 9765 1118848+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7 9766 10333 4294048+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS
[root@localhost t0x1c_zer0]#