ffi Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 I get the following message when I try to enter my USB stick: Could not enter folder /mnt/DATA_XXX., is there anyway to get it working? (Mandriva 2006.0 / i686, 2.6.12-15mdk/ KDE 3.5.1/ Dell Dimension 4600) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 (edited) Okay looking through the forum here´s my fstab file: # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/win_d2 ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/DATA_XXX ntfs pamconsole,exec,noauto,noatime,utf8,iocharset=iso8859-1,managed 0 0 Edited February 7, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 You have a lot of options on there, I'm not even sure they are relevant for ntfs. Unplug your usb stick, then check the /etc/fstab file to see if the /dev/sdb1 line disappears or not. If it doesn't, make a copy of your /etc/fstab file, then remove this line completely, and then reconnect your usb stick and see if it's any better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 After unplugging , this is what is says: # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/win_d2 ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 You have a lot of options on there, I'm not even sure they are relevant for ntfs. I didn´t do anything, I´m a nOOb ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 1. Do you have a serial ATA harddisk? 2. Is the USB stick REALLY formatted as NTFS? If it is, you can only access it as root, unless you alter the udev rules. If interested, I can tell you how, but why not format the pen drive as FAT32 (vfat), so you'll have read/write access? (on NTFS filesystem you can only read under a normal Linux kernel). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 1. Do you have a serial ATA harddisk? Yes and an IDE 2. Is the USB stick REALLY formatted as NTFS? If it is, you can only access it as root, unless you alter the udev rules. If interested, I can tell you how, but why not format the pen drive as FAT32 (vfat), so you'll have read/write access? (on NTFS filesystem you can only read under a normal Linux kernel). The stick is not mine, I borrowed it from a friend to get some files, he only uses windows ;) Could you please tell how to access the stick? B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Could you please tell how to access the stick? B) Simply enough plug it, and then hit alt+F2 and kdesu konqueror (provide the root password). You will find it mounted under /mnt/DATA_XXX (or something pretty close to that, in the /mnt directory) and be able to browse the contents. You will also be able to copy files to your harddisk, but not write files to the stick. The files written to your harddisk will have root ownership, if you want to access them as normal user you must chown them ( rightclick the copied file in the root konqueror, "properties", permissions and there change ownership to ffi/users or whatever your user and usergroup are ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 This worked but is there also a way to permanently enable browsing ntfs for normal users? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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