Acessing my Win Partition from Konq

[jbaerbock]

Yeah I have yet to figure out how to do this on KDE. I gnome it is just there and can view inside etc... I ran automatix2 and tried most everything I can think of. After running automatix2 it shows hda1 under media but the folder seems empty. How do I fix this?

[dibl]

Re: Acessing my Win Partition from Konq

Hmmmm, assuming your NTFS-formatted Windows partition is mounted under Kubuntu, you SHOULD be able to see it with Konqueror. Do you want to post your /etc/fstab file, so we can be sure this NTFS partition is present in your filesystem?

[jbaerbock]

Re: Acessing my Win Partition from Konq

Ok the following is what is in that file:


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda2
UUID=9171fd04-80ad-4ab1-8a84-2be0aeda9a05 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/hda5
UUID=e379736a-18b2-446f-8ece-9b8dd48e3981 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

# Generated by Automatix
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
## End of Automatix mounted partitions
/dev/hda1 <mount\040point> auto users,noauto,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

[dibl]

Re: Acessing my Win Partition from Konq

I used Automatix when I first started using Kubuntu, because it seemed to offer some capabilities that I just didn't know how to do myself. But I don't use it anymore, and you just reminded me why.

That hda1 filesystem type is bogus, and Automatix did it to you. "ntfs-3g" is not a bona-fide filesystem type. NTFS is. It may be that if you open kate in Super User mode, by doing Alt-F2 and entering

sudo kate /etc/fstab

you can change that from "ntfs-3g" to "ntfs" then make the rest of it read like this

defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1

and then delete the two lines beginning with

** End of Automatix mounted partitions

Click "save" when you are done, exit kate, shutdown and restart, and maybe you'll see your NTFS partition in your next session.

[eriefisher]

Re: Acessing my Win Partition from Konq

The ntfs-3g is for write capabilities. This is how the installed docs say to mount with write permission. Here is mine.

/dev/hdb2 /media/windows ntfs-3g uid=1000 0 0

This mount on boot with write permission.

/dev/hda1 <mount\040point> auto users,noauto,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

Not sure about this though

[dibl]

Re: Acessing my Win Partition from Konq

I'm using ntfs-3g, but I didn't use Automatix to install it. Here's my fstab -- 1 IDE and 2 SATA drives, and I can boot 4 different OS's including Win XP if I want to:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>  <type> <options>    <dump> <pass>
proc      /proc      proc  defaults    0    0
# /dev/sdc1
UUID=5c75276d-48e9-4705-a19c-94210edf8c2a /        reiserfs notail,data=writeback 0 1
# /dev/sdc3
UUID=9b7658da-59e1-4b2b-a4b9-fa3ee11b68cf /home      reiserfs defaults    0    2
# /dev/sda1
UUID=2db802ca-39f5-41f3-bcff-f23e9139a24e /media/sda1   reiserfs defaults    0    2
# /dev/sda3
UUID=4157eb7a-7a16-4ce7-8774-06f247c61dc6 /media/sda3   reiserfs defaults    0    2
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=8000EEFB00EEF6D6 /media/sdb1   ntfs  defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0    1
# /dev/sdb2
UUID=84445218-c1c0-41fc-9616-2c92a5a348d5 /media/sdb2   reiserfs defaults    0    2
# /dev/sdb3
UUID=788345ee-79d6-4298-bca3-e5b6f02f6a68 /media/sdb3   reiserfs defaults    0    2
# /dev/sdc2
UUID=f9c52547-7ede-4e39-b35c-ce764f290de6 none      swap  sw       0    0
/dev/scd0    /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto   0    0
/dev/fd0    /media/floppy0 auto  rw,user,noauto 0    0

[jbaerbock]

Re: Acessing my Win Partition from Konq

DIBL I coppied in what you said and it worked perfectly, thanks a ton!

[dibl]

Re: Acessing my Win Partition from Konq

Good! You are very welcome!

[eriefisher]

Re: Acessing my Win Partition from Konq

dibl can you write to that NTFS partition?

Here I have 2 ide drive with 3 OS's. Kubuntu,Dreamlinux and XP. I'm not sure why XP is still there since I can't remember the last time I booted it. I wander if it misses me?

[dibl]

Re: Acessing my Win Partition from Konq

dibl can you write to that NTFS partition?

Yep, although I have no reason to do so. I've arranged things so the "master" copy of documents, images, music files, etc. are in my Linux system.

I'm not sure why XP is still there

Maybe so you can flash your BIOS? I don't know of any other reason to keep a native Windows boot system. VMWare Player runs Win XP so well, that's what I use to run the few Windows apps I care about.

8)

[jbaerbock]

Re: Acessing my Win Partition from Konq

Just now finally tried writing something to the hda1 drive and it doesn't work, any ideas?