Re: drive mount error

[Roger Searle]

<egg position="face">OK apologies are due, I think.  Yes indeed this is 
the problem.  Sorry for having overlooked something so obvious.  These 
partitions were once NTFS (hence the entries in fstab which I have not 
altered) but on installing the new hard drive made most of them fat32 so 
I could write to them when booted to suse. </egg>

So I nearly got on to the right track when realising earlier it might 
have had something to do with putting in the new drive.

So hey, thanks to everyone who helped with suggestions, very much 
appreciated.

To balance out giving myself a hard time above, I'm impressed with how 
many times I used command line approaches to look at this problem - cat, 
mount, fdisk, man, clear, quit and more - and just knew them - slowly 
I'm learning.

Roger

Col wrote:

/dev/hda6            7395       11473    32764536    b  W95 FAT32

ummm. Thats fat32 not ntfs.
Have you tried vfat instead of ntfs in /etc/fstab?

Cheers
Col.