Before I do it again (Hard drive Mounting)

[fallingpoo]

Hey everyone!,
I'm new to Kubuntu and i need some help.
I made a royal screw-up of my mounting of my ntfs partition so I re-installed Kubuntu because it is easier to start off from scratch.
My Hard disk (hda1) seems to be mounted but when clicked on from "media:/" its says "could not enter folder /media/hda1"
If i go to "/media" it shows "/hda1" but it has a lock on it and when clicked its says "You do not have enough permissions to enter file:///media/hda1"
Could someone please tell me what I need to do to access my Windows Files.
I am running Kubuntu 5.10 and Windows XP
Thanks in advance.

[fallingpoo]

Re: Before I do it again (Hard drive Mounting)

http://www.psychocats.net/linux/mountwindows.php
Is this what i do? Minus the FAT32 Part?

[kubicle]

Re: Before I do it again (Hard drive Mounting)

http://www.psychocats.net/linux/mountwindows.php
Is this what i do? Minus the FAT32 Part?

Yup, that's it.

As my own recommendation, you might want to add read-only (ro) option to avoid accidental writing on the ntfs partition (that can lead to loss of data).

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

'umask=0222' mounts it with only read+execute access to all, but 'root' can walk over these restrictions, so you might accidentally write to it with sudo, for example.

Also remember to create a folder to mount the partition into, for example '/media/windows'
(If you're not going to use the default /media/hdXX)

[fallingpoo]

Re: Before I do it again (Hard drive Mounting)

darcy@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -a
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
    missing codepage or other error
    In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
    dmesg | tail or so

is the error message I got....Followed the insturctions but no luck remounting......
I'll try rebooting.
Help please!
Thanks for the help so far

[fallingpoo]

Re: Before I do it again (Hard drive Mounting)

No luck at all, got a "failed" for Mounting local file systems.....

[sky]

Re: Before I do it again (Hard drive Mounting)

Did you change the ntfs keyword by vfat if your partition is fat32 ?

[fallingpoo]

Re: Before I do it again (Hard drive Mounting)

Did you change the ntfs keyword by vfat if your partition is fat32 ?

No because my partition isn't fat32...

[kubicle]

Re: Before I do it again (Hard drive Mounting)

No luck at all, got a "failed" for Mounting local file systems.....

Did you create the folder in which you're trying to mount it? You have to create it beforehand, mounting does not create it.

And you can test mounting without restarting with:

sudo umount /dev/hda1

to unmount and

sudo mount /dev/hda1

to remount

[fallingpoo]

Re: Before I do it again (Hard drive Mounting)

Did you create the folder in which you're trying to mount it? You have to create it beforehand, mounting does not create it.

And you can test mounting without restarting with:

sudo umount /dev/hda1

to unmount and

sudo mount /dev/hda1

to remount

Ok as a rule from now on i will double check what i type:
The right line;
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs ro,nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
The line i wrought;
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs ro,nls=utf8,unmask=0222 0 0


Thanks everyone for helping me!!!!!!