Mounting drives?????

[andreasj64]

Im in mounting hell right now... I setup a new hard drive that was initially an NTFS format. The old entries won't go away, even though they no longer exist. I reformatted the drive in ext3 killing two partitions and making 1, and gave it another label, now I see all three labels, ntfs-3g Storage, ntfs-3g Back-Up Drive, and ext3 extra, but can't mount the ext3 drive. It reports the correct size, but I can't do anything with it because the permission is denied. I am utterly confused. The ntfs stuff needs to go away, and I need access to my ext3 drive. I am getting no where, and it feels as though I am making the problem worse. HELP!

Attached is a snapshot of KdeFree showing 3 0b entries in question, ntfs-3g and the UUID ext3. I need those gone.

[Snowhog]

Re: Mounting drives??

If in fact you have reformatted this drive, then you need to go and remove the mount-points that were previously setup for the three reported partitions: /media/Back-Up Drive /media/Storage

Open a console and type:

sudo rmdir /media/Back-Up\ Drive
sudo rmdir /media/Storage

Type the commands exactly as shown above.

As to the UUID=... device, click and drag the Device title bar to the right (click on the divider between Device and Type) so you can see the full UUID. We need to know what it is.

Next thing to do is to review your /etc/fstab file to ensure that you don't have entries pointing to this drive and partitions. Please copy/paste the file into your reply:

cat /etc/fstab

[andreasj64]

Re: Mounting drives??

okay, i got the Storage and other out of there....

still having problems mounting the drive