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Administration Guide
  1. About This Guide
  2. I Common Tasks
    1. 1 Bash and Bash Scripts
    2. 2 sudo
    3. 3 YaST Online Update
    4. 4 YaST
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    6. 6 Managing Software with Command Line Tools
    7. 7 System Recovery and Snapshot Management with Snapper
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    10. 10 GNOME Configuration for Administrators
  3. II Booting a Linux System
    1. 11 Introduction to the Boot Process
    2. 12 UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
    3. 13 The Boot Loader GRUB 2
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  4. III System
    1. 15 32-Bit and 64-Bit Applications in a 64-Bit System Environment
    2. 16 journalctl: Query the systemd Journal
    3. 17 Basic Networking
    4. 18 Printer Operation
    5. 19 The X Window System
    6. 20 Accessing File Systems with FUSE
    7. 21 Managing Kernel Modules
    8. 22 Dynamic Kernel Device Management with udev
    9. 23 Live Patching the Linux Kernel Using kGraft
    10. 24 Special System Features
    11. 25 Persistent Memory
  5. IV Services
    1. 26 Time Synchronization with NTP
    2. 27 The Domain Name System
    3. 28 DHCP
    4. 29 Sharing File Systems with NFS
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    9. 34 Setting Up an FTP Server with YaST
    10. 35 The Proxy Server Squid
    11. 36 Web Based Enterprise Management Using SFCB
  6. V Mobile Computers
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    2. 38 Using NetworkManager
    3. 39 Power Management
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    2. 41 Gathering System Information for Support
    3. 42 Common Problems and Their Solutions
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20 Accessing File Systems with FUSE Edit source

FUSE is the acronym for file system in user space. This means you can configure and mount a file system as an unprivileged user. Normally, you need to be root for this task. FUSE alone is a kernel module. Combined with plug-ins, it allows you to extend FUSE to access almost all file systems like remote SSH connections, ISO images, and more.

20.1 Configuring FUSE
20.2 Mounting an NTFS Partition
20.3 For More Information

20.1 Configuring FUSE Edit source

Before you can use FUSE, you need to install the package fuse. Depending which file system you want to use, you need additional plug-ins available as separate packages.

Generally you do not need to configure FUSE. However, it is a good idea to create a directory where all your mount points are combined. For example, you can create a directory ~/mounts and insert your subdirectories for your different file systems there.

20.2 Mounting an NTFS Partition Edit source

NTFS, the New Technology File System, is the default file system of Windows. Since under normal circumstances the unprivileged user cannot mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE library, the process of mounting a Windows partition described below requires root privileges.

For the following procedure, you need the Workstation Extension for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

  1. Become root and install the package ntfs-3g.

  2. Create a directory that is to be used as a mount point, for example ~/mounts/windows.

  3. Find out which Windows partition you need. Use YaST and start the partitioner module to see which partition belongs to Windows, but do not modify anything. Alternatively, become root and execute /sbin/fdisk -l. Look for partitions with a partition type of HPFS/NTFS.

  4. Mount the partition in read-write mode. Replace the placeholder DEVICE with your respective Windows partition: 

    ntfs-3g /dev/DEVICE MOUNT POINT

    To use your Windows partition in read-only mode, append -o ro: 

    ntfs-3g /dev/DEVICE MOUNT POINT -o ro

    The command ntfs-3g uses the current user (UID) and group (GID) to mount the given device. If you want to set the write permissions to a different user, use the command id USER to get the output of the UID and GID values. Set it with: 

    id tux
uid=1000(tux) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),16(dialout),33(video)
ntfs-3g /dev/DEVICE MOUNT POINT -o uid=1000,gid=100

    Find additional options in the man page.

To unmount the resource, run fusermount -u MOUNT POINT.

20.3 For More Information Edit source

For more information, see the home page of FUSE at https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse.

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