Mounting problem

[steve7233]

What the heck are .fstab.swo and .fstab.swp? What weirdness have you done with your system?

Great question. Idk.

[steve7233]

I just tried to save a spreadsheet to the drive and it said the file does not exist. I am going to assume that's because it's mounted as read only. Since I copied the previous drives tags then why is it mounting as read only when the tags are rw?

[steve7233]

I can create a directory on the drive using the sudo command but not my normal user. That means for my normal user it's mounted read only but for root it's mounted r/w. How does that make sense?

[steve7233]

I checked the group and user and sure enough they were both set to root. Apparently Kpartition manager sets up root instead of the user when making a partition. I changed it and now it's working. Now to figure out why I have to turn the drive off so the computer can boot as the boot cycle never finishes and keeps restarting unless the drive is switched off also grub II hangs if I turn the drive on to soon. I have to wait for Kubuntu 15.10 to start initializing then while Kubuntu gets going then I turn the drive on.

[steve7233]

This morning it booted properly and I had the drive turned on the whole time. I did an update before going to bed but that was an update for Firefox. I suspect it was because I was doing a reset (warm boot) last night and this morning I did a cold boot. Maybe a cold boot reset something in the BIOS that a warm boot never fixes.... I wish Ubuntu was more user friendly. I guess your working on that but it's still a long way off. Now that Microsoft has finally seen the light and gotten behind Linux and open source - I don't trust therm yet and recommend guarded optimism - maybe things will get better. especially games. I mean after they get done with all the porting like Visual studios and SQL! They are even working embedding the Linux command line into Windows 10!

[GreyGeek]

steve7233, allow me to suggest that after you get your system squared away that you install VirtualBox and create a guest OS of the version of Kubuntu that you are using. Do all your experimenting in it and if you break things just delete the guest and recreate it and continue with your experiments. That way you won't mess up your main system.

[steve7233]

steve7233, allow me to suggest that after you get your system squared away that you install VirtualBox and create a guest OS of the version of Kubuntu that you are using. Do all your experimenting in it and if you break things just delete the guest and recreate it and continue with your experiments. That way you won't mess up your main system.

I might try that later. I need more HD space first to do that in.