[Solved]Mounting a windows partition. "permission denied".

gr33nbit · 2013-07-18 21:37:51

Hey I have a problem with trying to get my windows partiton to open. It mounts fine and everything but it doesn't open when I try to open the folder or even in terminal.
I am also running xfce4 if that helps idk just trying to give as much info as i can.

here is my lsblk if you want it the windows partition is sda2:

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0    25G  0 part 
├─sda2   8:2    0 186.3G  0 part /media/OS
├─sda3   8:3    0  14.4G  0 part /
└─sda4   8:4    0 240.1G  0 part /home
sdb      8:16   1   3.6G  0 disk 
└─sdb1   8:17   1   3.6G  0 part 
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

As you can see it is mounting correctly and is currently mounted on /media/OS but if I try to open the folder I get greeted by this error.

Failed to open directory "OS".
Permission denied.

I tried "sudo cd /media/OS" but it tells me...

sudo :  cd command not found

I would love it if someone could please help me.

Thanks, gr33nbit.

Last edited by gr33nbit (2013-07-19 06:13:03)

jasonwryan · 2013-07-18 21:45:46

Presumably it is an NTFS partition?

gr33nbit · 2013-07-18 21:46:22

Oh sorry yes it is

WorMzy · 2013-07-18 21:47:07

cd is a shell command, you can't prepend sudo to it.

You probably just neet to install ntfs-3g, then unmount and remount the partition to use it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G

gr33nbit · 2013-07-18 21:50:32

ntfs-3g was already installed.
also just to make sure I umounted it and then tried to mount it again with

mount /dev/sda2

and it returned this error :

mount: can't find /dev/sda2 in /etc/fstab

jasonwryan · 2013-07-18 21:53:58

mount without a mountpoint assumes an entry in fstab; either include one if you want to regularly mount this drive, or create a mountpoint in /media/

gr33nbit · 2013-07-18 22:17:09

Thanks alls fixed.

if anyone wants to know the fix was: create a mount point , and just mount the filesystem to it such as

sudo mkdir /media/OS2 
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/OS2

turns out to be pretty simple

Thanks , gr33nbit.

karol · 2013-07-18 22:39:10

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

WorMzy · 2013-07-18 23:05:55

I'm curious how you were mounting it previously. Could you elaborate on that, so that people know what caused the problem to begin with?

gr33nbit · 2013-07-19 06:12:08

WorMzy wrote:

I'm curious how you were mounting it previously. Could you elaborate on that, so that people know what caused the problem to begin with?

Gladly.

To anyone that finds it important I am using ArchLinux x86_64 and my desktop environment is XFCE4.

Ok so I followed the arch wiki here "https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xf … le_Devices" on how to set Arch up to auto mount the drives and I installed 'gvfs' and 'udisks' which I thought would auto mount the drives.
turns out it does auto mount the windows partition but for some reason when I try to open it I don't have permission.
so the fix is to create a folder in /media/

sudo mkdir /media/windowsPartition

And then mount the drive manually to that folder like so.

sudo mount /dev/partition_to_mount /media/folder_to_mount_to

Hope this helps

Last edited by gr33nbit (2013-07-19 06:14:29)

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