Mouting external hard drive problem

[Tony_photoplus]

I have just loaded Suse 11.1 and it won't mount my external hard drive. There are 4 partitions and formated NTFS. I really need to get to that information urgently. My Windows just kept collapsing which was a WinXP 32bit on a new 64bit comp and it just seemed to be stable. Suse at this present time seems to be the only stable Linux OS I have had on here.

Thats besides the point really I am rambling. I have tried to access a root file fstab as I was told to do in Dolphiine but it just won't allow me to adjust or add to the script.
/dev/sdg4/media/disk ntfs-3g force 0 0
Have you any advice how else I can tackle this as everything else seems to be brilliant - touch wood. Which is not what I normally say!!

Looking at this forum mounting does seem to be a problem many have

Tony

[deano_ferrari]

With KDE4, external devices are only mounted when you navigate to them via Dophin. Now this file manager has a few options to alter file view and additional useful panels that can be loaded. In particular (from menu):

View > Panels > Places (enable). You should see some icons appear, including any representing your external volume(s). Clicking on external volumes will cause them to mount.

FYI, two console useful commands for you:

fdisk -l (to list all partitions available)

mount (to show whats currently mounted)

[gogalthorp]

Also to edit the fstab you must be root.

[D-cat]

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sus...tml#post713882

[Tony_photoplus]

Thanks for that. Its now resolved. Although I did it in an unconventional way through a laptop, but it worked. Thanks, I will be keeping the info to hand now in mt notes folder

Tony