I can see my win drives but can't access them, HELP!

[netstrider]

Well yes, just as I stated in the title. Whenever I go to my computer and I click a win drive and/or my other Linux drive where Ubuntu is installed it tells me "Permission denied". I tried it with root as well, same story.

In /etc/fstab this is how things look:

/dev/sdb2            /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/sda4            swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/sdb3            swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0

This is what I can see in my computer though:

[devils casper]

post the output of 'fdisk -l' command.







Casper

[netstrider]

SuSEi686:/home/uholtz # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2550    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            2551       11876    74911095    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3           11877       14444    20627460   83  Linux
/dev/sda4           14445       14593     1196842+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5            2551       11876    74911063+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1       11877    95401971    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2           11878       14445    20627460   83  Linux
/dev/sdb3           14446       14593     1188778+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
SuSEi686:/home/uholtz #

[devils casper]

create mount points and add entries for NTFS partitions in /etc/fstab file.

cd media
sudo mkdir ntfs_1 ntfs_2 ntfs_3

add these lines in /etc/fstab file

/dev/sda1     /media/ntfs_1    ntfs     defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sda5     /media/ntfs_2    ntfs     defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sdb1     /media/ntfs_3    ntfs     defaults,umask=0 0 0

execute 'mount -a' after adding entries in 'fstab' file and check ntfs folders in /media.






Casper

[netstrider]

Erm, should I clear my whole FSTAB or what? Sorry I don't quite understand well. Is this how my fstab should look in the end ?

/dev/sdb2            /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/sda4            swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/sdb3            swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
cd media
sudo mkdir ntfs_1 ntfs_2 ntfs_3
/dev/sda1     /media/ntfs_1    ntfs     defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sda5     /media/ntfs_2    ntfs     defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sdb1     /media/ntfs_3    ntfs     defaults,umask=0 0 0

[oldcpu]

Erm, should I clear my whole FSTAB or what? Sorry I don't quite understand well. Is this how my fstab should look in the end ?

cd media
sudo mkdir ntfs_1 ntfs_2 ntfs_3

This definitely does NOT belong in an FSTAB.

[netstrider]

Wait, I was extremely stupid and read too fast. I managed it and it worked thanks

EDIT: Oops, I edited the lines in fstab so I can read my Ubuntu drive from suse, but I think i should do it in another way:

/dev/sda3 /media/ext3 ext3 defaults,umask=0 0 0

Thats what I did and this is what the output of mount -a is thereafter:

SuSEi686:/home/uholtz # mount -a
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

I did this now after creating an 'ext3' folder in /media

>>> mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /media/ext3

It works....

[devils casper]

Thats what I did and this is what the output of mount -a is thereafter:

'mount -a' command reads fstab file and mounts all the partitions listed in it. But you can't mount already mounted partitioned at same mount point.
first of all, unmount partition ( umount ) and then mount again ( 'mount -a' ).





Casper