I bought a 1TB external hard drive by seagate to backup my MacBook and linux workstation.
Problem is it not supported in linux as it comes formatted in ntfs, so although I could read files, I could not write them! Argggh!
Luckily some googling turns up a solution
Now my SUSE installation has ntfs-3g installed but not fuse, but I got that from using the online repository.
Then create a mount directory /mnt/ntfs and mount using the terminal commands
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 ./ntfs/
There seem to be issues with the device automatically mounting do /media (in which case unmount it from there first), but eventually it is possible...
Problem is it not supported in linux as it comes formatted in ntfs, so although I could read files, I could not write them! Argggh!
Luckily some googling turns up a solution
Now my SUSE installation has ntfs-3g installed but not fuse, but I got that from using the online repository.
Then create a mount directory /mnt/ntfs and mount using the terminal commands
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 ./ntfs/
There seem to be issues with the device automatically mounting do /media (in which case unmount it from there first), but eventually it is possible...
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