Mouting Drives In Fedora.

psd99

psd99

psd99

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Hi guys,

Can anyone give me advice please on mounting my xp drives in Linux.

I got Fedora installed and logged in as sudo I typed in

fdisk - l

which gives me all the drives that are not mounted.

I see sda - this drive is where my linux os is installed

then there is

sdb
sdc
sde
sdf

these are the drives I wish to mount BUT NOT FORMAT.

Can anyone shed some light on to how to do this?
 
If they are formatted in NTFS then I suggest you install ntfs-3g and ntfs-config (with yum) once both are installed run System > Administration > NTFS Configuration Tool. This will mount the drives and enable you to write to them (once you have ticked the boxes) - to check which devices/partitions have been mounted you need to expand the Advanced Configuration bit at the bottom.

Hope that helps :)
 
If it's Fedora 9, I think it comes with ntfs support out of the box. In which case (if you're using gnome), click places, then click the drive. Otherwise:

mkdir /media/xp_part1
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb /media/xp_part1

To make it mount on startup, add the following line to fstab:

/dev/sdb /media/xp_part1 ntfs umask=000,defaults 0 0

Change the umask as appropriate, 000 means all users can write to it basically, not just the owner of the file.
 
FirebarUK said:
If it's Fedora 9, I think it comes with ntfs support out of the box.
Click to expand...

You are right, but for me (and a quite a few others) it would not mount the drive without running the ntfs-config program first.

To install ntfs-3g + ntfs-config you will need to be connected to the internet and have a terminal window open, then type in the following commands:

su -
(When prompted, enter your root password)

yum check-update

yum install -y ntfs-3g ntfs-config

This will most likely tell you that ntfs-3g is already installed, but it will upgrade it to the latest version if needs be and also install the ntfs-config package. Once it has completed you should then be able to go to System > Administration > NTFS Configuration Tool - this is on the top menu bar.
 
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