Unable to open Windows Disk partitions in solaris 11

Question

The NTFS Windows HD partitions are not appearing in solaris file system, which was not the case when I used Ubuntu. Every single file on my HD was exposed to me when I was in Ubuntu.

I have already tried to find the solution in the internet. Tried to solve it with the of this But had no success. The download links given for both FSWpart and FSWfsmisc is not working (giving a 404). I installed something called ntfs-g drive but I think I am not using it correctly as most of the time I am copying and pasting commands because I do not have sufficient knowledge to write them myself.

Edit :

Yeah I have tried that link too. But when I click on that download link, another webpage appears which displays a .png image stating that the named file can not be displayed because it contains errors.

And for the ntfs -3g commands I used. Sorry I should have mentioned them earlier. Here is what i have done

$ ntfs-3g /dev/dsk /mnt/c7d0p0
Error opening '/dev/dsk': Is a directory
Failed to mount '/dev/dsk': Is a directory

I have followed these commands from the README file came with the software package. There was another command type which I couldn't use

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

for example.

WHen I tried it like this-

$ mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/dsk/c7d0p0
mount: illegal option -- t
Usage:
mount [-v | -p]
mount [-F FSType] [-V] [current_options] [-o specific_options]
{special | mount_point}
mount [-F FSType] [-V] [current_options] [-o specific_options]
special mount_point
mount -a [-F FSType ] [-V] [current_options] [-o specific_options]
[mount_point ...]

As you can clearly see I am unable(due to my insufficient knowledge of unix) to perform the second command successfully.

Answer 1

You've got your syntax all munged.

What you need is something like this:

mount -F ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

Where /dev/sda1 should be replaced with the path to your disk, and /mnt/windows is an empty directory to be used as the mountpoint.

Specifying the FS type may not be necessary, but note that the switch is -F, not -t.