[SOLVED] How to mount the windows partitions in suse ?

[bhadotia]

I have recently installed suse 10.3. The problem is it is not mounting my windows drives by default.
That was not a problem in ubuntu. I don't exactly know how to edit the /etc/fstab to get the job done.
I've tried editting it mysrlf but without any luck. Here's how it looks like(after my trying to edit it):

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800BEVS-6_WD-WXE607C89872-part7 /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
part2 /media/E             ntfs       defaults
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800BEVS-6_WD-WXE607C89872-part8 swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800BEVS-6_WD-WXE607C89872-part2 /media/E  
ntfs                defaults          0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800BEVS-6_WD-WXE607C89872-part1 /media/C
ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800BEVS-6_WD-WXE607C89872-part5 /media/F
ntfs 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

I will appreciate all help. Thanks in advance.

[tjwoosta]

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e-10.1-494316/


that should help, i hope (next time you should probably try a forum that actually supports suse first)

[bhadotia]

Sorry I forgot to tell , this is what happens when I do 'sudo mount -a':


mount: special device part2 does not exist
mount: unknown filesystem type ''
mount: mount point defaults does not exist
mount: unknown filesystem type ''
mount: mount point defaults does not exist
mount: unknown filesystem type ''
mount: mount point defaults does not exist

[Cypher]

I presume your Windows partition is formatted in NTFS, so do you have the NTFS package installed in SuSE?

PS, you might get more detailed help in the SuSE forums..

[bodhi.zazen]

LOL, be nice.

You mount the in SUSE just like Ubuntu or any other distro.

mount <partition> <mount_point>

from your error messages, do the mount points exist ?

you need to su -> become root
mkdir /media/C /media/D /media/E

Then

mount -a

If that fails, mount by device or uuid

[bhadotia]

THanks

[N.N.]

Can't help you with mounting NTFS partitions in SUSE, but it looks as if you messed up your /etc/fstab file when you edited it by unintentionally inserting line breaks in the lines that refer to your NTFS partitions.

The bits that say

ntfs                defaults          0 0

should be matched with the lines that describe the location of the device nodes (the parts that look like /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800BEVS-6_WD-WXE607C89872-part2) and their mount points (e.g., /media/E).

Thus, to exemplify, consider the part that currently looks as follows:

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800BEVS-6_WD-WXE607C89872-part2 /media/E  
ntfs                defaults          0 0

This entry is split into two lines while, in order to conform with the syntax of the /etc/fstab file, it should only take up one line:

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800BEVS-6_WD-WXE607C89872-part2 /media/E                 ntfs                defaults              0 0

When you edit a file with an editor such as nano, automatic line breaking is often default behaviour. While such behaviour might be desirable for casual writing, it can cause problems when editing configuration files, as is evident from the output of mount:

mount: unknown filesystem type ''
mount: mount point defaults does not exist
mount: unknown filesystem type ''
mount: mount point defaults does not exist
mount: unknown filesystem type ''
mount: mount point defaults does not exist

Also, you should remove the following line (line 2) as it does not conform with the syntax of the file:

part2 /media/E             ntfs       defaults

This line causes the mount command to output the following error message:

mount: special device part2 does not exist

[bhadotia]

Thanks for the information.

[bodhi.zazen]

two most useful flags with nano ? -Bw nano -Bw /etc/fstab -B == make backup of original file -w == disable wrap. keeps information from appearing to be 2 lines.

[bhadotia]

Bodhi that just went over my head (I did'nt get a word!)!
I have never used nano (or any CLI based editor)you see .
Any way , now that we are at it , what are flags (- I see this word a lots of time in linux)?