Aaron Kulkis wrote: > James Knott wrote: >> Doctor Who wrote: >>> I have a Western Digital 250GB USB drive formatted with NTFS. I use >>> it interchangeably with my openSUSE boxes and a Windows XP work >>> laptop. >>> >>> When I plug it into my openSUSE laptop, it mounts fine and I can >>> browse the contents (with Konqueror, for example). But it does not >>> let me drag files to the drive because it does not mount the drive >>> with ntfs-3g support by default. >>> >>> Is it possible to have the drive mounted with ntfs-3g support >>> automatically every time it's plugged in with it's own permanent mount >>> point (like /mnt/wd/)? If so, how? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >> Try formatting it with Yast Partitioner and specifying a mount point. > > And destroy all of his data on the disk??? > > Uh..... noooooooo.......... > >> This will create an FSTAB entry, that always causes it to mount >> correctly. >> > > >
In oS 10.3 all NTFS partitions are mounted using the ntfs-3g driver by default. If you are using 10.3, you may use YaST2 Disk module to just create the FSTAB entries for automatically mounting; you do not need to format partitions at all. Kind regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
