What do I need to do to mount my winXP partitions?

[keropi]

I have mandriva2006 powerpack on a normal 80GB ATA133 HD, and winXP-pro on a SATA HD, which is connected to a PCI SILLICON 3112A controller (also have sata on my ECS KT-600A motherboard but I do not use them...)

as a regular user, the xp partitions appear but I cannot mount them because it complains about root priviledges...

as root it complains that they do not eist!?!

the card and partitions show up OK in MCC, named SDA1. SDA2, SDA3

 

any ideas?

 

 

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[arctic]

Check this link: http://easylinux.info/wiki/Mandriva#Windows It explains it in a short, but undertandable way.

[keropi]

ok, I did the mount command, and now where is its icon? on devices still shows as unmount, but if I write /mnt/win_d/ on a goto toolbar, it really shows my D drive...

also, is this command resident? or do I have to do it on every reboot?

sorry to bug so much.... :)

[arctic]

The command is temporary = only valid until you manually unmount the drive or reboot the machine. You can make it resident by editing your /etc/fstab file, which hosts all information on mounted filesystems. The same link as above, two sections below you will find how it is done:

This is assuming that /dev/hda1 is the location of Windows partition (NTFS), and also that /mnt/win_c isn't in /etc/fstab yet.

Local mount folder: /mnt/win_c

 

mkdir /mnt/win_c

cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup

kwrite /etc/fstab

 

* Append the following line at the end of file

 

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0

 

There will be no icon by default if you use KDE. For that, you will have to start the Kcontrol center and set Konquerors preferences so that it shows icons for mounted partions. I don't remember the exact location in the menus though (I mainly use Gnome on my machines).

[ianw1974]

Right click the desktop and go into configure and you'll be able through one of the options in here to choose what items should appear on your desktop, specifically mounted cd-roms and suchlike.

[keropi]

because I do not want to screw it here is my fstab, can you please tell me what to edit?

 

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/mapper/pdc_cdhciecf1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/mapper/pdc_cdhciecf2 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/mapper/pdc_cdhciecf3 /mnt/win_e ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

 

thank you ppl for the quick replies!

Edited June 22, 2006 by keropi

[arctic]

Backup your /etc/fstab, (e.g. open it as root with an editor and save it as fstab-bkp), then try these settings for the Windows entry in your fstab

/dev/mapper/pdc_cdhciecf1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/mapper/pdc_cdhciecf2 /mnt/win_d ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/mapper/pdc_cdhciecf3 /mnt/win_e ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0

Save and exit. It should work.

[keropi]

no it does not work :(

saved, exited, rebooted

still unmount icons in Devices (only root blah blah blah) and if I write /mnt/win_c2/d/e on konqueror, it just shows a blank dir

[arctic]

Have you done the changes as root? If not, no wonder there are no changes.

If you did it as root and it still doesn't work, then try

"umask=0,ro 0 0"

instead of

"umask=0222 0 0"

[keropi]

the mount command works with /dev/sda1/ perhaps I should put that instead of /dev/mapper/pdc_cdhciecf1 ????

ofcourse I made changes as root... gonna try the 2nd way now :D

 

EDIT: still nothing... here is my fstab just to be sure...

 

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/mapper/pdc_cdhciecf1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0,ro 0 0
/dev/mapper/pdc_cdhciecf2 /mnt/win_d ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0,ro 0 0
/dev/mapper/pdc_cdhciecf3 /mnt/win_e ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
[keropi@localhost ~]$ su

 

and I use mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/win_d/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 and D partition works nice, although it's icon in Devices is unmounted...

Edited June 22, 2006 by keropi

[arctic]

If it is listed as sda, then yes, use /dev/sda instead of /dev/mapper entries.

[keropi]

If it is listed as sda, then yes, use /dev/sda instead of /dev/mapper entries.

 

 

Thanx! the /dev/sda1/2/3 did the trick, now they are even available in Devices! :D

many thanks!

[arctic]

No problem. :)