3 Accessing File Systems With Fuse; Configuring Fuse; Mounting An Ntfs Partition - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

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Accessing File Systems with
FUSE
FUSE is the acronym for file system in userspace. This means you can configure and
mount a file system as an unprivileged user. Normally, you have 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

13.1 Configuring FUSE

Before you can use FUSE, you have to install the package fuse. Depending which
file system you want to use, you need additional plug-ins in different packages. Use
YaST to search for these packages and use fuse or file system as keywords.
Generally you do not have to configure FUSE, you just use it. However, it is a good
idea to create a directory where all your mountpoints are combined. For example, you
can create a directory ~/mounts and insert your subdirectories for your different file
systems there.

13.2 Mounting an NTFS Partition

NTFS, the New Technology File System, is the default file system of several Windows
versions, like Windows NT, 2000, XEP and Vista. It supersedes the FAT file systems.
To mount a Windows partition as a normal user, proceed as follows:
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