A Question

[KeeganX]

I just installed Ubuntu 5.10 over my windows partition. I downloaded Automatix and opened XMMS player to listen to my music in my other partition I had, and I can't seem to find it. Is it because I made the partition with windows that linux cannot find it. My other partition is NTFS, could that be the problem, or does linux just not does partitions.

 

[BillLeeLee]

You have to mount the other partition. Ubuntu might have already set up an entry for it in fstab, so look at the text file /etc/fstab and paste the contents in here.

It should look something like this...

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hdb4       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hdb3       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/sda        /media/usb0     auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hda4       /media/WinFiles ntfs    ro,noauto,user,umask=0222       0       0
/dev/hdb2       /media/WinPics  ntfs    ro,noauto,user,umask=0222       0       0
/dev/sda1       /media/iriver   vfat    rw,user,noauto         0       0

Sorry for the crappy formatting, but that's how my file is.

If an entry does not exist, then you can either: add an entry, or mount it with a line like

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222

That's just an example, I don't recommend using it.

But first, see if there's an entry before we dive deeper.

 

[HHunt]

There is a related discussion (among other things) in this thread.

 

[Whatsisname]

first thing, open up a terminal, and type mount. Post the output. Then type more /etc/fstab and then post the output to that.

 

[x__dark]

NTFS is very bad with talking to Linux, your best bet is to make a small third partition with a FAT32 file system.