access denied to all mounted drives

[azwli]

Hello,

I upgraded to Gutsy from Feisty and encountered lots of problems, so what I want to do is back up my 45G home Dir and then re-install from a live cd. The problem is that for some reason when I put in a thumb drive or turn on my 500G usb external drive, I get this message: "mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /media/disk busy". (along with this, when I try to access other partitions I get this message: "hal-storage-fixed-mount-all-options refused uid 1000" but, I don't really need to do that now)

I try to unmount but that has no effect. I would just use a live cd to do the back-up; the external drives are available, but I can't find my home dir from the live cd.

If someone could help me with either of these issues, I would be grateful.

Jason

[SheeEttin]

Re: access denied to all mounted drives

Make sure no hot-swappable drives are mounted and nothing's mounted at /media/disk, then do this:

sudo rm -r /media/disk
sudo rm /media/.hal-mtab

And try it again.

[azwli]

Re: access denied to all mounted drives

This is what I got:

seawing@seawing-desktop:~$ sudo rm -r /media/disk
[sudo] password for seawing:
rm: cannot remove `/media/disk': No such file or directory
seawing@seawing-desktop:~$ sudo rm /media/.hal-mtab
seawing@seawing-desktop:~$

and I almost was able to do it with a live CD but I couldn't change the permission on the drive.

[SheeEttin]

Re: access denied to all mounted drives

And does it mount now?

If not, try mounting it manually, e.g. "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk".

[marshallbanana]

Re: access denied to all mounted drives

re the hal-storage-...
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3087495.0

[OneSalientOversigh]

Re: access denied to all mounted drives

I almost was able to do it with a live CD but I couldn't change the permission on the drive.

Were you using Konqueror for this?

I just discovered how to do this:

While in Konqueror, right click on the file you wish to modify, then go:

Actions --> Edit as Root

[azwli]

Re: access denied to all mounted drives

This got solved, but I don't know how...after two days of searching for answers, it just started loading...