unable to view a NTFS hd

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: unable to view a NTFS hd
started by: fuct

Posted by fuct on Sep. 21 2005,04:00

Strange because the operating system (DSL) will show the different partitions available (4 total, over 2-HDs), but it will now all me to view the information available on the drives themselves.

Is this because DSL is incompatiable w/ a WinXP NTFS or is it due to some other reason?

I have checked and refreshed the views under "./mnt/" over and over, but nothing ever comes up. I was hoping to be able to port over some linux programs into the system to compile and run for development reasons.

Any feedback will be worth my time. Thank you.

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 21 2005,04:09

DSL does not automatically mount a hard drive partition, so the /mnt/... directories will be empty until you manually mount them first.

There are a few easy ways to mount a hard drive partition.

1) Use the "Mount.app" dockapp that is located in the lower right corner of the desktop. Scoll over until your partition name appears and then push the button. If the green light appears, then your partition is now mounted.

2) Open an xterminal window and type:

mount /mnt/hda1

(in this example, we mount partition named hda1)

When finished working on it, you can unmount the partition with the

umount /mnt/hda1

command.

3) Start up the emelfm file manager and navigate to the /mnt directory. Then Right-Click on a mountpoint (say "hda1", for example) and choose "Mount" from the popup context menu.

After mounting the partition, the files should then appear.

Hope this helps.

Posted by fuct on Sep. 22 2005,01:32

thank you for your quick response, can't wait to try it out.

thank's again... can't wait to try out a few programming projects w/ this distro

Posted by fuct on Sep. 22 2005,02:03

works great, thank you very much!