mounting sata drive & pen drive

[vish786]

does anyone know how to mount sata hdd which is in NTFS format tat too in WRITEABLE mode so tat file can be transferred from c drive to other logical drive....



How to mount an USB Pen Drive
Attach your USB pendrive to Linux computer.
#dmesg
{Check the last lines. It will show the device name used by pendrive for example
/dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1)
#mkdir /pendrive
#mount /dev/sdb1 /pendrive
How to unmount & remove an USB Pen Drive/Hard
Disk from Linux System?
#unmount /pendrive
# eject /dev/sdb1
à {Pendrive will stop blinking. Now
remove it}

[QwertyManiac]

Is this a tut?

Do this .. [Ubuntu]

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

Then enable mounting of external with write support via the app .. That's it.

[vish786]

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

Is this a tut?

Do this ..

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

Then enable mounting of external with write support via the app .. That's it.

its both a tutorial with a question
wat is sudo???? till now i hav been using mount command for mounting file systems will it work in all the linux OS like mandriva, fedora core, suse, knoppix , mostly famous ones..... and i hav a internal sata hdd not an external

[kalpik]

sudo allows you to become the root user temporarily.. And do what Qwerty suggested, easiest way to get ntfs write support..

[kaustav_geek]

sudo allows you to become the root user temporarily.. And do what Qwerty suggested, easiest way to get ntfs write support..

Sudo actually gives you root privileges but doesn't in fact make you the root.. I guess thats what Sudo is all about nuh ?

[vish786]

so u mean to say tat sata drive will be mounted in writable mode????

[gary4gar]

Originally Posted by vish786

so u mean to say tat sata drive will be mounted in writable mode????

i think he said so

[anantkhaitan]

Originally Posted by vish786

so u mean to say tat sata drive will be mounted in writable mode????

Writable only for root
As far as 'accessing ur media' is concerned best way is to edit ur 'fstab' file:

$ sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Append this as root to ur fstab file:

if media has FAT32 partition :

/dev/<drive> /media/<mount point> vfat users,rw,umask=000 0 0

if NTFS then :

/dev/<drive> /media/<mount point> ntfs ro 0 0

U must be knowing about 'su', but 'sudo' unlike su gives U root privilege only for one execution and U r a normal user again and avoiding possible accidents which u may cause if ur a root
Example :

$ sudo mount /dev/hda2 /media/documents

[freebird]

writing in ntfs also possible now.check ntfs-3g
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
http://linux-ntfs.org/

[QwertyManiac]

Originally Posted by anantkhaitan

Writable only for root

It enables for all users ..