I can't open my ntfs drives from ubuntu 8.10

[roververa]

Well, good morning i had kubuntu 8.04 and i installed 8.10, i did it unplugging my two sata drives with ntfs format, and using an ide hard drive for kubuntu, after i finished installing, i plugged the other two hard drives, and i see an icon through dolphing i click on them and the dolphing ask me for the root password i put it and that's it it blinks and i don't see the content of the hard drive, i will apreciate any help, i am the super newest in linux so please be patient

[SoulSlayer]

Re: I can't open my ntfs drives from ubuntu 8.10

you will help a lot if you paste here your fstab file

try to read man fstab i think the problem is there

[roververa]

Re: I can't open my ntfs drives from ubuntu 8.10

this is what you ask for, i think

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=4152aa79-04a2-48ad-a0aa-af1eba525d14 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=b87b5e6f-0e1c-4be8-b351-dd1b65461e2c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[Snowhog]

Re: I can't open my ntfs drives from ubuntu 8.10

Install the following packages:

ntfs-config
ntfs-3g

You can do so via Adept Manager or by opening a console and typing:

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config ntfs-3g

This will install the tools required to manage/access NTFS formatted drives. If you had one of those drives attached when you installed 8.10, these packages would have been installed when the Windows drive(s) were detected.

[roververa]

Re: I can't open my ntfs drives from ubuntu 8.10

i did what you did through the console and this is the fstab after that and after rebooting

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=4152aa79-04a2-48ad-a0aa-af1eba525d14 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=b87b5e6f-0e1c-4be8-b351-dd1b65461e2c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0


as far as i can see i think that nothing changed

[dibl]

Re: I can't open my ntfs drives from ubuntu 8.10

Installing the ntfs-3g package isn't going to edit the /etc/fstab file. You'll have to edit that manually, with kate in Super User mode, i.e. Alt-F2 "kdesudo kate /etc/fstab" with no quote marks.

You can learn the device and UUID of the ntfs partition with the console command

sudo blkid

You'll have to make a mount point (i.e. a directory) in /media. This may help a bit -- disregard the part about it being a USB stick:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3084679.0

[Snowhog]

Re: I can't open my ntfs drives from ubuntu 8.10

Also see the man page for ntfs-3g. In a console type:

man ntfs-3g

[roververa]

Re: I can't open my ntfs drives from ubuntu 8.10

I did with the mount point article that you posted, and it worked, but when i reboot it is gone, would you please teach me to edit the fstab file, to have the access to those drives permanently