mounted my drive.

[Superman3332001]

I am trying to access my windows files so I can get to my music I have mounted the drive and changed the directory. It was empty. Does any one have any suggestions or good easily explained webistes to help me figure it out.

Thanks in advance as always

[sybil]

Go to a terminal window and type in:
df -T
That will give you a list of the mounted partitions and their filesystems and free space.
You want to make sure it really was mounted. Maybe quickly run through what you did to mount it. In effect you need to have a directory to mount to (ie a folder titled, say, Win), then mount the partition to that directory. What is the Windows filesystem, ntfs or fat32? Linux sees the partitions as files, and you need to tell it how to read them.

[Superman3332001]

Ok I typed df -T and here is what came up

Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 ext3 19655316 1911160 16745720 11% /
tmpfs tmpfs 258248 0 258248 0% /dev/shm
/dev unknown 19655316 1911160 16745720 11% /.dev
none tmpfs 5120 2836 2284 56% /dev
I followed the directions on the site

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomaticallyMountMSWindowsPartitions?highlight=%2 8windows%29%7C%28mount%29%7C%28partition%25

My windows is in NTFS format.

Thanks

[sybil]

Ok - so in your /mnt directory, there is a /win (or something like that) directory?
If so, you want to try mounting it manually first to make sure you have it right.
chmod a+r /win
mount /dev/hda1 /win -t ntfs (where /hda1 is the linux designation for your windows drive and /win is your windows folder in /mnt).
Then try
df -T again or
df -h
If it's listing it properly, try
ls /win to browse it.
If not, make sure you're mounting the right partition.
http://linux.org.mt/article/partnames to review how linux names partitions.

[Superman3332001]

okay it says that it is already mounted. when I typed ls /mnt/win it just gives me another prompt

Thanks

[ultrabuzz]

If you followed the instructions you posted, doing fdisk -l should tell you where your windows partition is. I'll assume it's /dev/hda1.

If you have mounted it vfat, it's not going to work. Unmount with:
umount /dev/hda1
Then mount the ntfs partition with:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
Once you're able to browse, THEN you can go ahead and add a mount directive to your fstab file.

[Superman3332001]

If you followed the instructions you posted, doing fdisk -l should tell you where your windows partition is. I'll assume it's /dev/hda1.

If you have mounted it vfat, it's not going to work. Unmount with:
umount /dev/hda1
Then mount the ntfs partition with:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
Once you're able to browse, THEN you can go ahead and add a mount directive to your fstab file.
Now I got it mounted but I now don't have enough permission to access it. How do I changed the access to it

[sybil]

Did you do the:
chmod a+r /win
That's just giving it read access, but since it's ntfs that should be sufficient - for fat32,
chmod a+rw /win

[Superman3332001]

Did you do the:
chmod a+r /win
That's just giving it read access, but since it's ntfs that should be sufficient - for fat32,
chmod a+rw /win
yes I did but when I use konqueur to browse it then says I don have enough permission to read the win2k directory.

[Superman3332001]

yes I did but when I use konqueur to browse it then says I don have enough permission to read the win2k directory.
LOL I rebooted my computer and it fixed it. Thank u everyone that helped me.

[sybil]

:bsu:

[Superman3332001]

:bsu:

LOL now I can get my music files and get ride of winBLOWs forgood. lol