Mounting Drives

[mesaquib]

Hi Guys! I m new to linux. I've SuSE 9.0 installed on my system. I can mount DVDs & CDs but I can't mount other drives which is in NTFS format. Can anyone pls tell me how can I mount drives in NTFS format in LINUX.

[yancek]

Assuming your windows partition is hda1 and your mount point is 'windows' in the mount directory (you need to create this directory if it does not exitst), you would enter in konsole as root:

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

In order to have it mounted on startup you will need an entry in /etc/fstab. This is my entry for Suse 9.2 and yours should be similar.

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0

[devils casper]

You can mount partitions using mount command as suggested by yancek. In case you have confusion or command throws error, post output of this

su -
fdisk -l
df -h

[mesaquib]

You can mount partitions using mount command as suggested by yancek. In case you have confusion or command throws error, post output of this

su -
fdisk -l
df -h

The output of commands is as follows:-

saquib@linux :~> su -
Password:
linux:~ # fdisk -l

Disk  /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      1275  10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2          1276      9728  67898722+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5          1276      2550  10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6          2551      4462  15358108+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7          4463      7012  20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda8          7013      8924  15358108+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda9          8925      9728   6458098+  83  Linux
linux:~ # df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda9             6.1G  4.4G  1.5G  76% /
tmpfs                 251M     0  251M   0% /dev/shm

I don't know if those drives in NTFS filesysytem is mounted. If it is mounted pls tell me how can I access them.
I have given the root password in "Password :"

[devils casper]

Execute this

mkdir /media/hda5
mount  -t  ntfs  /dev/hda5 /media/hda5  -o  defaults,umask=0
ls /media/hda5

Does it display contents of first NTFS Partition ( /dev/hda5) ?

[mesaquib]

Thanks! Now I can access the files of NTFS Partition in Linux.

[mesaquib]

I need one more help. I am using GPRS internet connection with Nokia N70 as modem with USB Data Cable. I can't connect to internet using this connection in Linux. Can u pls tell me how can I connect to internet using this connection.