how do i view other drives?

[Snowhog]

Re: how do i view other drives?

Okay. As it is for the Medical Profession - "First, do no harm." - so it is here. Let's 'undo' what we've done with your fstab file. Re-edit it as before (Konqueror and Edit as Root) and remove the two lines I had you add:

/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 ntfs-3g defaults 0 2
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 ntfs-3g defaults 0 2

Save and then again, shutdown and reboot. Verify that you are 'back to where you began' in that you can see the drives in Dolphin.

[dibl]

Re: how do i view other drives?

Well, this getting pretty desperate, so "desperate situations call for desperate measures".

Open KMenu>System Settings>Advanced>Disks & Filesystems (give root password) and see if highlighting the /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6 partitions, and clicking "enable" down at the bottom of the window makes them usable on your system.

If so, we haven't solved the problem, we've merely band-aided it so you can take care of business.

It might be that you want to use "mount by UUID" to mount them -- the command "sudo blkid" will reveal their UUID numbers, and you can use the examples that are already in your /etc/fstab file to set them up that way.

[wrick]

Re: how do i view other drives?

ok, I'll start with Snowdog's suggestion, I also do think we need to take a step back

Thanks for your help guys, truly appreciated.

See you in a minute.

Rick

[wrick]

Re: how do i view other drives?

still nothing.

I went into advanced settings, and checked mount on startup on both partitions.

Rebooting, well see what it does.

Rick

[wrick]

Re: how do i view other drives?



What I did in the advanced settings worked!!!

I created a folder under media, named after the drive, and asked it to be mounted automatically upon boot.

Friggin cool !

Just for my info, what are my options into changing the type of drive ?

I mean, I have no need for an ntfs drive...

[Snowhog]

Re: how do i view other drives?

You can reformat the drive/partitions to ext3 if you don't need to have them as NTFS.

[wrick]

Re: how do i view other drives?

You can reformat the drive/partitions to ext3 if you don't need to have them as NTFS.

I still need the data on that drove though....!

[Snowhog]

Re: how do i view other drives?

Then you'd have to copy it off to another location first. Assuming you have enough space on one of the ntfs partitions, just copy the contents from one to the other. Verify the copied files are all there on the other partition. Then format the partition the files were copied from. Then repeat the process - copying all the files from the ntfs partition to the reformatted ext3 partition. That done, format the remaining ntfs partition to ext3.

Make sure you understand what you are doing! Make a mistake, and you risk your data!

[Jonathan.Simpson]

Re: how do i view other drives?

I'm going to semi-hijack this thread, is that acceptable on these forums? I'd rather not make my own thread for something so similar, especially since this one is so close to the top.

Anyways, I am still attached to WIndows for the time being (school and work) and I am dual-booting with 2 HDDs. 1 for Windows, 1 for Kubuntu. I'm curious about how I go about mounting my Windows HDD so that I can read/write to it from Kubuntu. I'd like to be able to grab my class work and mp3s that way. It'd be a tremendous time saver. My other option is to start copying everything from my Win HDD to my iRiver (HDD-based mp3 player -- I'm sure that'd be a separate problem in and of itself) and then copying them on to the HDD I am using for Kubuntu. Where do I started? Dolphin was recognizing the Win HDD earlier, but was unable to view it, and now it seems to have disappeared altogether from Dolphin and Konqueror. Thanks in advance!

[Snowhog]

Re: how do i view other drives?

K Menu | System | Adept Manager
Search on ntfs3g-config
If not already marked as installed, click on the file name below, click on the Request Install button, and then click Apply Changes above to install. This will install the required packages for reading/writing NTFS files on your Windoze HD. Is the Windoze HD internal, or is an externally connected HD (USB connection)?

[Jonathan.Simpson]

Re: how do i view other drives?

Done and done, it's internal.

[Snowhog]

Re: how do i view other drives?

Open a console and type:

sudo fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab

Copy and paste the output.

[Jonathan.Simpson]

Re: how do i view other drives?

sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x47764776

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 30400 244187968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x318b318b

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 18657 149862321 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 18658 19452 6385837+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 18658 19452 6385806 82 Linux swap / Solaris

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cat /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=623a1eb3-d1bd-4aaa-80cf-ac85a8e25b52 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/sdb5
UUID=bb4d57c4-d415-4b5b-8d0a-490f2d5fbc6f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sda1 <mount\040point> auto nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

[Snowhog]

Re: how do i view other drives?

Change the last line in your /etc/fstab file to what I've indicated below (bold entry). This file needs to be edited by root. You can use Konqueror (don't use Dolphin) and navigate to /etc and then right-click on the fstab file and select Actions | Edit as Root

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=623a1eb3-d1bd-4aaa-80cf-ac85a8e25b52 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/sdb5
UUID=bb4d57c4-d415-4b5b-8d0a-490f2d5fbc6f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 2

Save and close the file. In a console, type:

sudo mount -a

This will/should mount the new entry and the partition should then be showing in System Menu | Storage Media

[Jonathan.Simpson]

Re: how do i view other drives?

Edited /etc/fstab as root, added the line, saved and closed.

flexner@kubuntu:~$ sudo mount -a
fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/sda1: No such file or directory
FUSE mount point creation failed
Unmounting /dev/sda1 ()