[SOLVED] Using mount command to enable /home

helo... i am trying to install OS9 alongside OpenSuse .. the home partition on Open Suse has all my data on it on a partition listed in gparted as /dev/sda6/home .

when i try to use the mount command : mount /sda6/home sda1/home

i get a reply : you have to be root to do this .

how do i mount my Open Suse home partition on OS9 ?

thanks for any suggestions ...!

Well if you are trying to open your SuSE /home partition, it may well be a permissions issue set on the SuSE side of things - you could try this:

Open a terminal and enter:

Code:

gksudo nautilus

then open your 'Computer' icon to view your partitions and see if it makes any difference - if it doesn't you will need to read up on how to make root as a logged in user - but could make your system unstable! You would be better having a separate FAT32 partition so you can share data between each OS more easily!

ok .....thanks for the advice i will do the research on this .the command gksudo enabled the editing of fstab file to mount at boot time ..it seems to work also have set UID and GID to match opensuse

thanks again

[ solved ] !