The strange thing is that all the ntfs partition lines in fstab are identical apart from the number following hda or hdb and the directory in which it should be mounted. There are also hda7 and hda8 which can also not be mounted - providing the same error. Does that and the following output help?
SuSEbox:/home/roger # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 3570 28675993+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 3571 19457 127612327+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 3571 7394 30716248+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 7395 11473 32764536 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda7 11474 15552 32764536 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda8 15553 19457 31366881 b W95 FAT32
Disk /dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 2932 23551258+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdb2 2933 4865 15526822+ 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 2933 3696 6136798+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 3697 3759 506016 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb7 3760 4865 8883913+ 83 Linux
Cheers, (a clutching at straws) Roger
Barry wrote:
Roger Searle wrote: snip
/dev/hdb1 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/E vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf 8 0 0
^
/dev/hda6 /windows/F ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
Is the problem caused by having 'utf 8' instead of 'utf8' in your /etc/fstab?
HTH
Barry
