Mounting filesystems

[Nyad]

Hi I have installed SUSE 10.2
I cannot pick up my 2 NTFS partitions and my 1 Fat32 partition.

by going to konsole and typing fdisk -l . I get a list of all my harddrives etc so I can figure out which drive I am mounting.
I type in a root shell

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda5 /windows/E -o -ro //This doesn't work
//says

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda5,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

I get the same error when I type

mount -t vfat /dev/sdb5 /windows/F -o -ro -o fat=32

[Jonathan183]

Start YAST and go into partitioner (think its in the system group), you will be able to set mount points there. If you want to write to NTFS partitions you will need to use the ntfs-3g driver - this is used by 10.3 .... not sure about 10.2 but you will find instructions on the OpenSUSE web site if you need to install the ntfs-3g driver.

[gogalthorp]

For 10.2 you must install ntfs-3g to write to a NTFS file system but you should not need that for FAT.