ntfs

[geordie chris]

why can i not mount hda1.i get this message when i try..can't find /dev/hda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab.whats going on?

[Volvo_Guy]

Re: ntfs

your fstab file may not reflect that hard drive/partition for a number of reasons. The easiest thing to do is to check your fstab file and make sure that hda1 is there. Next type

sudo mount /dev/hda1 -a

and see if you can access it then. If not, go under the KDE button, up to System Settings and then to Disks and Filesystems. In here you can see all your drives. If you need to make a change, click the Administrator Mode button, then you can modify how each drive acts. You can take /dev/hda1 and mount it to /media/storage for instance, and you can change who owns the drive, whether it mounts at startup ect. Now, since it's an NTFS drive, you won't be able to write to it. Linux cannot write (at this time) to NTFS partions until ntfs-3g or FUSE is included in the kernel, which I believe isn't included as of now.

Will