keith11 Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 I am running windows xo pro sp2 and mandriva powerpack 2007. I wanted to read/write on e:\ so I converted my e:\ drive from ntfs to fat32. The problem now is that I can see the partition but I can't see the contents of the partition. I can see /mnt/win_e but when I browse inside it, there's nothing. I opened up the fstab file and found that the entry for /mnt/win_e still has ntfs association instead of vfat. The entry for win_e in my fstab is as follows: /dev/hda10 / ext3 noatime 1 1 /dev/hda7 /boot ext3 noatime 1 2 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 So how do I fix this problem so that I can see the contents of win_e and also be able to save files in it from linux? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soka Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Just replace ntfs with vfat and ro with rw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Did you already try the new ntfs-3g driver, it is included in 2007. It is very fast and supposedly safe too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 As soka said, edit /etc/fstab and replace ntfs with vfat and change ro to rw. And you're done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith11 Posted January 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 I will try out changing the line in fstab. I actually tried changing it from ntfs to vfat (not rw from ro though), but then I got a little afraid and didn't save the changes. I will now. ffi - I am a novice and I would look into the driver you are talking about and what it does. Thanks all of you guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 ffi - I am a novice and I would look into the driver you are talking about and what it does. It was one of the first things I managed to compile and install successfully without hitches but that is't even necessary now because it's in the repositories and installing would just be as simple as urpmi ntfs-3g. (okay and then change in fstab ntfs to ntfs-3g) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith11 Posted January 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 Changing the entries in fstab did work.:) Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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