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    Cannot access NTFS/Windows drives in SuSE 10

    Forgive me if this is a commonly asked question around here.

    Right, I got SuSE 10 and installed it on my 2nd HD which is just for linux. I have an 80Gb one in 2 partitions both NTFS for windows and games and so on and then that 30Gb one, now when im in SuSE and I go to /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2 I get a 'Couldn't display "/dev/hda1/2"' and I have no idea why - any ideas?

    The size of hda1/hda2 in SuSE is apparently 0 bytes, but that cant be right because I can still boot into windows and access everything on my 80Gb HD fine...sorry again if its a fairly easy solution!

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    things in /dev/ are device nodes, not files - for the most part, they don't really exist.

    in the case of disk devices such as hda1 or sdg4 or whatever, they can only be accessed by first mounting them to an empty folder - similar to daemontools mounting a .iso file to an empty drive letter in windows (and, as it happens, the following method can do the same thing with minimal changes).

    i don't know the suse pretty easy clicky method for doing it all in an easy manner, but here in unix-sysadmin-land:

    open a console
    become root (e.g. with "su")
    make an empty folder to use (e.g. "mkdir /mnt/windows")
    mount the disk, as an ntfs partition, with read-only access to all users (e.g. "mount -t ntfs -o umask=0222 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows")
    browse the /mnt/windows folder

    however, i would be very surprised if suse hadn't already set up some mount points, such as in /media or /mnt

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    Just to add to what directhex has already said: in Gnome, if you go to Desktop/Administration/Disks, you can see all the various disk partitions, their name (as in hda1, hda2, etc.) and the filesystem - it can make mounting easier if you're not sure about the device names or filesystem.
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    Cheers, I tried your suggestions after checking in /media and /mnt and it says:

    mount: /dev/hda1 already mounted or /mnt/windows busy
    mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda1 is mounted on /windows/C


    that.

    I've had a look and it created the /mnt/windows directory but it's empty,

    Cheers for your help,
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    I'm not sure how SUSE's automounting works, but my guess is that it is automounting the NTFS partitions. Did you check in either the /windows/C dir?

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    yeah, sounds like it's already mounting to /windows/C

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    Can SUSE actually read NTFS? It's been a while since I looked at things like that, but I always made my windows partitions FAT32 because linux can read them easy.

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    Well, it knows the drives are there because in a window in YaST (can't remember which, sorry!) it has a wee graphical display with the % of the drive filled, but I can't find the files in any of the directories you have suggested.

    Perhaps an error on my part during setup?
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    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel
    Can SUSE actually read NTFS? It's been a while since I looked at things like that, but I always made my windows partitions FAT32 because linux can read them easy.
    Reading isn't an issue, writing is.

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    I've been able to read from NTFS drives since I installed my first Linux distro (RH8.0). I've never even tried writing because everyone told me that it will corrupt the data.

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    Look in your fstab (file system table) file (probably /etc/fstab) and see what and where your drives are being mounted, and what permissions they are given. You say you can't find the mounted drives, you can alter in this file where and their permissions.

    Oh and don't forget to run mount -a.
    Last edited by yamangman; 10-11-2005 at 08:49 PM.
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