[Discuss] accessing NTFS partition

[fishhead]

On Tuesday 22 January 2008 08:57:00 Lloyd Budd wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008 8:20 AM, stanfish <stanfish at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > True the Places/Computer brings up all the partitions including the
> > NTFS. Clicking on the NTFS partition displays the folders, but clicking
> > the folders doesn't seem to work for me... even as 'open as root' I
> > cannot get a display of the folder contents. Altho I am not sure if I am
> > truly 'root' because I am not asked for a password. Does this imply a
> > 'privileges' issue? If so how can this be dealt with?
>
> It didn't prompt when you implicitly mounted it? When I click the
> partition it did prompt me for my sudo password, and I have no problem
> accessing the subdirectories.
>
> Now when I run $mount I see the line:
> /dev/sda2 on /media/OS type fuseblk
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)
>
> Sorry, I don't have any insights,
> Lloyd
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Yes you are correct. It was my error. I was clicking on the My Documents 
folder and should have gone to the  'Users' folder and followed through to 
the 'Document' folder in the appropriate user: that did the trick...all is 
revealed.
Thanks for your help.
Stan Fisher