Guest beginner44 Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 Hello, I am trying the 2010.0 Beta with a full install. I can't access my Windows XP NTFS partitions at all. Is this a bug, is this normal? Can I do something about it? I am a beginner (experienced but still beginner) and I don't know about "mounting" the drives. The right click menu says "mount" the drive, and I tried it but nothing happens. Is it about "miunting" the drives? (I don't even know what that mounting is). Thank you in advance. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 I was able to mount a Windows 7 RC1 partition by adding the following to fstab. There may be other ways to do this, but at least this works. # Entry for /dev/sdb2: UUID="BE10805710801893" /mnt/windows_7 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 I used the fdisk -l (that is a lower-case letter L) command to get the partition information needed. [root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7752 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes Disk identifier: 0xcccdcccd Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 4086 30890128+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 7098 7752 4951800 1b Hidden W95 FAT32 /dev/sda3 4087 7097 22763160 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 4087 5453 10334488+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 5454 5731 2101648+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 5732 7097 10326928+ b W95 FAT32 Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xdfbd9c43 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb2 13 12762 102400000 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb3 * 12762 12787 204800 83 Linux Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb4 12787 19457 53577720 5 Extended Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb5 12787 19457 53576704 8e Linux LVM [root@localhost ~]# Once I determined that /dev/sbd2 was the partition I wanted to mount, I then used blkid command to get the UUID#. [root@localhost ~]# blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="1EA4E764A4E73D41" LABEL="IBM_PRELOAD" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sda2: LABEL="IBM_SERVICE" UUID="460C-3761" TYPE="vfat" /dev/sda5: UUID="6fac9d46-945f-11dd-b256-a7f53cf1e588" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda6: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap" UUID="660bb819-4642-4832-9efd-024ca14b6287" /dev/sda7: UUID="488F-0C33" TYPE="vfat" /dev/sdb1: UUID="6AAC73BDAC7381FD" LABEL="System Reserved" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sdb2: UUID="BE10805710801893" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sdb3: UUID="fe7a3d5e-a100-437e-8014-ea945d7cdba0" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" [root@localhost ~]# I used the mkdir /mnt/windows_7 command (choose whatever name you like for a folder under /mnt/) to create the mount point. [root@localhost ~]# mkdir /mnt/windows_7 [root@localhost ~]# Now add the lines to /etc/fstab. I appended the ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 part of the line from information I got elsewhere. # Entry for /dev/sdb2: UUID="BE10805710801893" /mnt/windows_7 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 If you have a fat partition, then this line would be a little different. Instead of ntfs-3g, you would use vfat. I have the following line for a fat32 partition that exists on my drive. # Entry for /dev/sda7 : UUID=488F-0C33 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=000,iocharset=utf8 0 0 You may need to install ntfs-3g. You will need to reboot for changes to take effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beginner44 Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 Dear David, thanks a lot for your great help. But unfortunately that is Chinese to me... I will follow your suggestion of installing the final version tomorrow (silly me I didn't notice it was coming out so soon) and see what happens because the previous versions of Mandriva did recognize and access my Windows XP partitions. However, I have a big problem with all the Linux distros I try and Mandriva is no exception. When I install them they run fast. Even after running all the updates. But after a while, they start getting deadly slow and even buggy. Mostly Firefox (and the other browsers which are worse in my opinion). It all gets slow, freezes, fails... All distros. And only after a few hours of use. I have tried a million things like using a simple base theme, unchecking some start up programs, uninstalling some heavy programs like OpenOffice... nothing. It always becomes deadly slow and buggy. I was it's me doing something wrong as I am a beginner but I don't know what it can be. If you had some ideas please let me know. Thanks a lot again. Regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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