milosz;480957 Wrote: > I think I'll just stick to Windows. Ok, that's fighting talk ;-)
First to recap - your music is on several drives that are formatted NTFS and on a computer that is 'running' some sort of Windows?You want to be able to see this music from your Squeezecenter which is running on another PC running Ubuntu and both PC's are on at the same time? Or are the disks on the same PC that you dual boot, sometimes Windows, sometimes Ubuntu? Anyway, try this as root on your Ubuntu computer: 1. Create a directory to mount a NTFS disk: mkdir /mnt/ntfs1 2. Identify your NTFS disks: fdisk -l | grep NTFS The first part of the answer, /dev/xxxx will be what you want, where xxxx is something like /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, /dev/hda1 etc. 3. Mount the NTFS disk into that directory: mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs1 4. Check to see if anything is there: ls -Ral /mnt/ntfs1 You should see the disk's content scrolling past. Now you repeat this for all other NTFS disks you have, creating /mnt/ntfs2,3,4 etc. Then it's time to make the symbolic links the others have talked about. Use the cd command to go to the place where you've told your music is stored. This can be anywhere but it's best to choose somewhere quiet on the local disk, I use /home/slim/music. From here enter the ln -s music_on_ntfs1 /mnt/ntfs1 ln -s music_on_ntfs2 /mnt/ntfs2 etc. That should do the trick. Post the output if you have any trouble. And FWIW your opening statement of having a large music collection inevitably means it's going to be on more than one disk is incorrect - you can create a Linux software RAID device that glues together as many disks as your mainboard can support into one large volume with build in fault tolerance (RAID5 or RAID6). The performance isn't stellar but more than adequate for listening to music. Do some Googling for mdadm and see if you like the idea, but remember this does not replace good backups... -- hellesangel Two Squeezebox Classic, firmware 127 Squeezeslave-0.9-65-alsa Squeezecenter 7.3.3 - 27044, running under openSUSE11.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hellesangel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5658 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70810 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
