I have noticed that live versions of Knoppix, and Damn Small Linux both allow me to see my ntfs partitions.

When running either a live or installed version of Kubuntu, I am not able to browse to my ntfs partitions. What must I do to "mount" the ntfs partitions while running Kubuntu? Anyone know how to do this on a Dell, Latitude?

Thanks

#mount -t ntfs /dev/<whatever partition its> /mnt/<destination mount point>

e.g #mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_ntfs

regards

Awesome! This sounds so simple and direct. I am sure that it can help. I just don't know were to put this and when. I know that I can make on the fly adjustments at a prompt command line environment somewhere, but where does this go? Can it be made a permanent part of the start up so that I don’t have to do this every time I want to see my drives? Would I want to?

Perhaps I should download a tutorial for baby newbies. How hard would it be to give step by step instructions for how to use this information? Like….

click on this. drag to that. type this, hit enter. close this, click that, restart that, save as, then close etc.

Thanks so much. I will work on figuring out where this bit of code would go in the meant time.

I found what seems to be a good page for this. at
https://wiki.kubuntu.com/Automatical...dowsPartitions

I have not tried it yet, but I am sure it's worth looking at.

Phazon, I can't tell you how to change a LiveCD so that it automounts your partions. if you want to have your ntfs drives visible and mounted all the time using an installed Kubuntu then you need to edit your /etc/fstab file. I'm not on my ubuntu machine at the moment but from memory;

Assuming that /dev/hda1 is the location of Windows partition (NTFS) then you need to create a create a Local mount folder: /media/windows
using a terminal type:
sudo mkdir /media/windows

Then edit /etc/fstab so that the partition will be mounted on boot, again in the terminal:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup
sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Append the following line at the end of file (use Tab to create the spaces - follow the form of lines already present in the file)
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs umask=0222 0 0

or

/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0

I use the line without nls=utf8 - so no idea what it does??? maybe someone else can shed light on that.

Save the edited file.

Then in a terminal type: sudo mount -a
this should mount all partitions listed in /etc/fstab and your drive will be there everytime you boot up.


This only works for Kubuntu installed on a Hard drive - not the liveCD versions.
Also you should check out the UBUNTU forums (ubuntuforums.org) lots of info there.

Paul

hi,
this will help you.
http://www.gnulinuxclub.org/index.ph...d=38&Itemid=31

regards

Cool..

Well, I followed the directions at

https://wiki.kubuntu.com/Automatical...dowsPartitions

and wound up adding

/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0
/dev/hda5 /media/windows ntfs user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0

to

etc/fstab

And they come up great!

Pretty wild!

Thanks for the come back

I wonder how I can get the desk-top links to them to look like the hard drive icons the way they look in the folders.

Do you mean a shortcut to the device itself? Right Click on the dektop, select Create New --> Link to Device --> Hard Disc Device. Click the Device tab, and enter the device you want to link to (eg /dev/hda5). This should give you a hard disc icon on your desktop.

If this isn't what you want, post back, and I can probably help
--Ian

oh cool, I'll try it

I had this idea, and it seems to have worked out. First of all, I found it interesting that after I had to re-install kubuntu (because I corrupted the xorg.conf file trying to get the machine to see my PS/2 mouse) I found that when I typed the following lines

/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0
/dev/hda5 /media/windows ntfs user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0

into

etc/fstab

that when I closed it, my hard drives appeared in the desktop media folder. As if simply typing it and closing the editor was a command in it self. Odd.

Any way, so I found that if I used the Konsole to browse to the files in media, that only 1 of the 2 hard drives files were there. this meant that I could not give the

chmod 777 file

command to the files on the HDD I could not get to. Oddly enough, I could still see the files on each drive using the web browser or editor, I just cold not save to them without giving permission in the Konsole setting.


hmmm

so I tried this

First, while in the root directory, I did

mkdir /media/windows1

then

mkdir /media/windows2

then I modified

etc/fstab

by adding this

/dev/hda1 /media/windows1 ntfs user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0
/dev/hda5 /media/windows2 ntfs user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0

at first, when I closed it out, I again saw the images of the 2 extra hdd's magically appear in the media folder, but I could not see the files in them this time until I re-booted.

After re-booting, I was not only able to see the files using what ever browser or editor, but I was also able to browse to them using the Konsole. this is so cool

I feel like a power user!

I would definitely feel like one if I could figure out how Knoppix, and Damn Small Linux are able to make my PS/2 mouse work and do that for Kubuntu.

Cheers

Ok, this is how you can figure it out. Boot up with Damn Small Linux. Using whatever it provides for a text editor, and open /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Save it to someplace on those partitions that it mounts for you, then close out of Damn Small Linux.

Boot into your Kbuntu system, and do these two:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

sudo gedit /wherever_you_put_the_xorg.conf_from_DSL

Now you have them open together. You might want to save a copy of your xorg.conf before you start:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.confWORKS

Modify the real one (the one at /etc/X11/xorg.conf) and make the mouse things look the same. Remember any line that starts with # is a comment and is not read by the system. Anything after a # that occurs in the middle of a line is also not read.

Save it, close everything, and restart x with the Control-Alt-Backspace key combo. I bet it comes back with your mouse working differently.

If the worst happens and x will not start after you fool with it, the system will drop back to a shell log-in. Just log in with your name and password, and do:

mv /etc/X11/xorg.confWORKS /etc/X11/xorg.conf

And restart x with the Control-Alt-Backspace key combo, or restart the computer with:

sudo shutdown -r now

and she will reboot, and you can try again.

Best of luck to you.

C

Well

Thing is, if you down-load a copy of DSL, you'll see that it does not have an

etc/X11

directory. And Knoppix won't let me save things to hda3 (which is where my Kubuntu is in residence) because I can't get it to give me the permissions. If I do a

chmod 777

for anything while in Knoppix, I get some goofy message unlike I get using Kubuntu. Even though when I do a

ls -l

and get a

-rwxrwxrwx

for any file I have done a

chmod 777

for, it still won't let me save anything.

So...I am stumped for the moment.

besides this, it is not only the

Section "whatever"
option "this"
option "that"
protocol "dev/mouse, blah, blah"
EndSection

part I need to change. I have tried that about 6 different ways,... really.

What I need is a copy of the character device file called "mouse" in the dev directory of Knoppix. But it won't let me save it to any other hda while running Knoppix, and it does not exist on the Knoppix cd because it is all de-compressed at the time of booting said cd.....

dilemma

to mount NTFS add the following line to fstab

/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

i was having the same problem i folowed the instructions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Au...ountPartitions
but im being told i dont have permission to veiw or alter it. i thought i told it to alow all users to read and write, am i just missing some thing??? any help would be most apreaciated

thanx