If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
If we do not hit our goal we will be forced to close the site.

Current status: https://keepboardsalive.com/

Annual subs are best for most impact. If you are still undecided on going Ad Free - you can also donate using the Paypal Donate option. All contribution helps. Thank you.

Problem Accessing data from old D:\

shinobi · 2007-03-18 16:53:27

I've only just started using linux this week & I'm having a few teething problems. Basically I have MP3's on my "D:\" which I want to be able to access in Linux. I logged into root at the shell, mkdir /mnt/D mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/D when I try to access the /mnt/D directory there is a lock on the folder. how can I…

18-03-2007 05:53PM

#1

shinobi

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 447 ✭✭

Join Date: January 2002

Posts: 401

I've only just started using linux this week & I'm having a few teething problems. Basically I have MP3's on my "D:\" which I want to be able to access in Linux.
I logged into root at the shell,
mkdir /mnt/D
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/D

when I try to access the /mnt/D directory there is a lock on the folder.
how can I get access to this folder.

Any help would be much appreciated.

0

Comments

#2 18-03-2007 06:10PM

Cake Fiend

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,333 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 1999

Posts: 5223

You're mounting the drive as root, but probably trying to access it as a regular user. Look into the 'umask' option of mount (man mount) to mount it as your regular user account.

0