Mounting NTFS External Hard drive?!

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  1. Ballgirl

    Ballgirl

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    I'm a new owner of a Acer Aspire One AOA150-Ab Netbook with 512Mb Ram and 160Gb HDD from Asda. :)

    I've been trying to get a couple of external USB drives mounted and I'm banging my head against a wall.

    Both are NTFS drives, 120GB and a 1TB.

    I've seen that I need to install ntfs-3g which I appear to have done.

    When I connect the drives it says unable to mount drive only root can mount?

    Can someone given me an idiots guide how to do it? i don't have a clue what I'm doing with this terminal lark
     
    Ballgirl, Jan 16, 2009
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    Hi and welcome,

    quick answer to your prob: make yourself root (administrator)

    How: precede your command with the command: sudo

    sudo mount (and the rest)

    linpus will ask you for your password.. and execute the command

    Hope this helps you out,

    Enjoy your AA1
     
    woodland, Jan 16, 2009
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