mounting fat32 and ntfs ??

[Amebaid]

hello i'm new open suse user

i was wondering if any one can help me mounting my drives making them read/write

i have opensuse 10.2
c: ntfs
i: ext3
swap
e: fat 32
d: ntfs
f: ntfs
g: ntfs
h: ntfs

can you help plz ??

what to do ?

[devils casper]

boot up SuSe, open konsole/terminal and execute this

su -
fdisk -l
df -h

post output here.





Casper

[Amebaid]

this is what i got

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 394 3164773+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 395 4865 35913307+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 395 1629 9920106 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1630 1850 1775151 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7 1851 4865 24217956 b W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/hdb: 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/hdb1 * 1 3475 27912906 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2 3476 14593 89305335 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 3476 7479 32162098+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb6 7480 10909 27551443+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb7 10910 14593 29591698+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

[devils casper]

note down partition number of NTFS and FAT32 partitions. e.g. /dev/hda1, /dev/hdb1 etc. you have only one FAT32 Partition. ( /dev/hda7).
create mount_point (folder) for each partition and mount it.

mkdir /media/win_c
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1  /media/win_c
ls /media/win_c

your first NTFS partition is mounted in /media/win_c folder. replace ntfs with vfat for FAT32 partition.
you can add entries in /etc/fstab file for automount these partitions at boot up.
open /etc/fstab file and add this line

/dev/hda1   /media/win_c   ntfs  defaults,umask=0 0 0

Casper

[Amebaid]

i can't save the lines to fstab ??

o tried these codes in a terminal

sudo kate /etc/fstab

but not working .. when i try to save it tells me you don't have the permission

[smolloy]

Try

kdesu kate /etc/fstab

or

sudo pico /etc/fstab

Pico will open in the command line, and kate will open a new editor window (kinda like notepad.exe).

[devils casper]

aren't you using SuSe? login as root OR execute 'su -' in terminal.





Casper

[Amebaid]

yes i'm using suse

and i was logging as a root but i didn't know the command to go to /etc and open fstab

yet i opened it with

kdesu kate /etc/fstab

i restarted now but .. the good news the the files is readable now
but i can't move or del any of it or copy

this is the out put of fstab

/dev/hda5 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda6 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
/dev/hda1 /media/win_xp ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda7 /media/fat vfat defauls,unmask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /media/sam1 ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /media/sam2 ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /media/sam3 ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb7 /media/sam4 ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0

is there is any thing else i must do ?

[devils casper]

Linux doesn't support NTFS write access. it has NTFS read and FAT32 read/write access only. install ntfs-3g package to enable NTFS write access.





Casper

[Amebaid]

i've allready downloaded

ntfs-3g
fuse

like that

ntfs-3g-0.20070207-RC1.tgz
fuse-2.6.3.tar.gz

and to be honest i don't know how to install then

on double click File Roller opens
and that is it i don't know what to do ?