External Drive

[Pumalite]

I'm new to Linux, so a little patience. I have several external drives that I used with XP Pro without problems. They are connected via USB. The first time I tried to transfer a file from Suse, I was told I had " no permission". So the question is: How do I do to obtain permission?

[devils casper]

you must have root privileges to access that. either log in as 'root' or execute 'su' in terminal/konsole.

[Pumalite]

Thanks; I tried that, but I think it has to do more with how suse 'sees' ntfs partitions in general. So far what I found out is that I have to install ntfs-3g. For that I had to install something called 'fuse-devel'. I couldn't install it as an rpm because 'in the dependencies' zypper ket alleging it didn't have the 'fuse-devel' even though I had just done it! So finally I downloaded as a tar.zip file, opened with file roller and located it in /tmp. There I got as far as configuring it with the command './configure' Later, it didn't respod to the command 'make'. Well for what is worth; I need suse to 'see' all my ntfs hardrives: inside as well as ouside of the system and permit them to be read and written. So far suse 'sees' only his own drive. ( I have 3 drives: C for Windows, D where there is suse and E that is also ntfs and is empty. Can you help me with that? Thanks

[Pumalite]

How do I mount the other drives?

[devils casper]

check the output of 'fdisk -l' command and mount other partitions manually.
create mount_point ( folder ) for each partition and execute 'mount' command.

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/<partition> <mount_point> -o defaults,umask=0

[Pumalite]

Thanks a lot for the help! I'll try it, even though I'm still trying to install ntfs-3g. I don't know why, but after I configure the file, I cannot find a makefile. The only thing I can think of is that I'm not configuring it right or that the fuse-devel that I installed is 2.5.. instead of 2.6.... Any ideas?

[devils casper]

download rpms from here.
http://software.opensuse.org/downloa...USE_10.2/i586/

[Pumalite]

Thanks, I'll try to reinstall fuse and ntfs-3g using your link. I read that fuse had to be 2.6 or above. The curious thing is that the zen installer keeps complaining that I don't have fuse, every time that I try to install ntfs-3g...src.rpm, even though I know I just installed it.

[devils casper]

src.rpm is a source rpm and you dont need to install that. download .rpm file from the link i have posted.

[Pumalite]

So that's where the problem was! Thanks a lot. I let you know how it went.