[SOLVED] Someone else has undoubtedly had this problem, but I cannot yet figure out how to search the forum's redone site for past posts. Apologies to all.
I have installed a second internal hard drive in my 10.04 machine and have divided it into two newly-formatted partitions. When I ls /dev, the drive shows as sdb, sdb1 and sdb2. Dolphin sees both partitions, but I cannot write to either of them. The owner is root, but root is the owner of my other drives as well, and I can write to them. I have tried sudo chmod 777, and when I ls -l /dev/sdb*, it shows full read, write and execute permissions. When I go into Dolphin, it asks me for my password to get access to the device, but putting in the password doesn't seem to help.
I've been poking around looking for an answer but have not been successful. I gather, though, that a print-out of fstab is helpful, so here it is:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=36bf5fae-4205-4c97-a867-77db799456f6 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda5 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=53ce5dcb-42d8-470c-828e-3e53a647437c none swap sw 0 0
Here is the output of /etc/mtab:
/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
none /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
none /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
/dev/sda5 /home ext4 rw 0 0
vmware-vmblock /var/run/vmblock-fuse fuse.vmware-vmblock rw,nosuid,nodev,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/Backup_1 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /media/Data\0401 fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/sdd5 /media/Data\0402 fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
I have tried mounting the new device, and I get the message that sdb* is not in fstab or mtab. So I think my question is how to modify those files so that I can mount and use the new partitions. I could, of course, be totally wrong; that happens a lot.
I have installed a second internal hard drive in my 10.04 machine and have divided it into two newly-formatted partitions. When I ls /dev, the drive shows as sdb, sdb1 and sdb2. Dolphin sees both partitions, but I cannot write to either of them. The owner is root, but root is the owner of my other drives as well, and I can write to them. I have tried sudo chmod 777, and when I ls -l /dev/sdb*, it shows full read, write and execute permissions. When I go into Dolphin, it asks me for my password to get access to the device, but putting in the password doesn't seem to help.
I've been poking around looking for an answer but have not been successful. I gather, though, that a print-out of fstab is helpful, so here it is:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=36bf5fae-4205-4c97-a867-77db799456f6 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda5 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=53ce5dcb-42d8-470c-828e-3e53a647437c none swap sw 0 0
Here is the output of /etc/mtab:
/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
none /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
none /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
/dev/sda5 /home ext4 rw 0 0
vmware-vmblock /var/run/vmblock-fuse fuse.vmware-vmblock rw,nosuid,nodev,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/Backup_1 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /media/Data\0401 fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/sdd5 /media/Data\0402 fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
I have tried mounting the new device, and I get the message that sdb* is not in fstab or mtab. So I think my question is how to modify those files so that I can mount and use the new partitions. I could, of course, be totally wrong; that happens a lot.
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