I can't get to my other drives.

ElGriton · Dec 31, 2003

I have tried everything I can think of to mount my other drives and partitions in slackware 9.1 and nothing works.

This is my fstab:
/dev/hdf6 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

This is my mtab:
/dev/hdf6 / reiserfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0

And a copy of the output from dmesg.
Could someone please help me? the partitions are NTFS so they need to be ro. I have two drives an 80GB WD and an 200GB WD both on a Promise controller card.

Christoph · Jan 1, 2004

Do you have ntfs support in your kernel and do you know which devices you want to mount? What happens when you try to mount them?

ElGriton · Jan 2, 2004

OK. I hope this is right. It looks like there is an ntsf module "/ntfs.o.gz" but it seems that insmod fails during boot. The drives I'm trying to mount are hdf1,hdf2,hdf3,&hdf4.

Christoph · Jan 2, 2004

Modules end in .o. Try doing tar xzf ntfs.o.gz, then doing insmod.

ElGriton · Jan 2, 2004

I get this
Bash-2.05b$ tar xzf ntfs.o.gz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Christoph · Jan 2, 2004

file ntfs.o.gz will tell you what kind of file it is.

ElGriton · Jan 2, 2004

ntfs.o.gz: gzip compressed data, was "ntfs.o", from Unix, max compression

Christoph · Jan 3, 2004

Did you try gunzip?

bowzer · Jan 3, 2004

that or gzip -d ntfs.o.gz

ElGriton · Jan 4, 2004

OK, ntfs is NOT supported by my kernel. For some reason the module is not loading. Can someone tell me why not? Is there a way to edit or replace this module?

SickBoy · Jan 4, 2004

I'd think the easiest way to go would be to recompile the kernel using your old .config file and add NTFS read support statically..... it doesn't take more than a half an hour to recompile and install a kernel on most machines.

ElGriton · Jan 4, 2004

SickBoy said:
I'd think the easiest way to go would be to recompile the kernel using your old .config file and add NTFS read support statically..... it doesn't take more than a half an hour to recompile and install a kernel on most machines.

I just knew someone was going to say that

. I'm afraid that may be far beyond my capabilities. Unless you can point me to a step by step how to, I'm stuck.

fiji · Jan 4, 2004

ElGriton said:
I just knew someone was going to say that . I'm afraid that may be far beyond my capabilities. Unless you can point me to a step by step how to, I'm stuck.

im guessing your kernel sources are in /usr/src/linux

and that yoru using a 2.4 series kernel

if so

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
(now go down to fielsystems, and hit M on NTFS)
(now arrow key over and hit exit twice, it will prompt you to save the config save it, and while in /usr/src/linux type)
make dep && make modules modules_install

that will install the ntfs module aswell as any other modules in your kernel config

ElGriton · Jan 4, 2004

I tried that and there was already an M there. I think the module is just not loading.
edit I'm trying again anyway just fot schitz and giggles

fiji · Jan 4, 2004

oh and when you try to mount your ntfs partitition do

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdxy /mnt/weeee

ElGriton · Jan 4, 2004

fiji said:
oh and when you try to mount your ntfs partitition do

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdxy /mnt/weeee

OK, mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb2 /mnt/drive worked. Whats does the -t do?
After recompiling I no longer have sound. Is there a way to reverse that?

edit: OK, never mind about the -t i found that out. How about my sound though?

fiji · Jan 4, 2004

modprobe your sound card module

ElGriton · Jan 4, 2004

OK, sound is back. I still can't get ntfs support without doing "mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb2 /mnt/drive" and I still only have access as root. I can live with it like this as I don't really need to go there very often It's just that I can't is whats bothering me.

Christoph · Jan 4, 2004

ElGriton said:
OK, sound is back. I still can't get ntfs support without doing "mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb2 /mnt/drive" and I still only have access as root. I can live with it like this as I don't really need to go there very often It's just that I can't is whats bothering me.

If you want to be able to mount it as any old user, add user to the mount options (the fourth field) in /etc/fstab.

fiji · Jan 5, 2004

to mount with a regular user as owner , and not have it in fstab do something like

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdxy /mnt/blah -o uid=user

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