Can't access 2nd partition

[ke7omc]

Hi,
I am fairly new to kubuntu. I put Kubuntu9.10 on my computer last night. Today I have been having lots of fun with it. When I installed it and set the partitions I set 30GB as ext 4 for normal files and programs, 30 GB as XFS for large files such as video, and about 1.5 GB as swap area. That takes up my hard drive. I installed the actual OS on the ext 4 partition, but I need to know how to access the XFS one so I can put my music videos and such on it. Can anyone here tell me how to access it and save files to it. It would be a great help.
Thanks

[vinnywright]

Re: Can't access 2nd partition

do you see the other drive in dolphin's places panel (the left side) use F9 to togel it on/off.

if you do click it and see if you can add a folder or not and report back.......

some people have ben experenceing problems with drives acsessed with dolphin and the user not being abel to right to the drive........

if you dont see the drive open a console and post the output of these comands

sudo fdisk -l

thats a lower case L

sudo blkid

and

cat /etc/fstab

if you do see the drive and can open it in dolphin but cant right to it open a root dolphin .......press alt>F2 and in the box that opens type "kdesudo dolphin" withought the quotes
and use it to add a folder named whatever you want .....after you make it right click it and then click propertys and then permissions and chang to ownership to user=you group=root/or you ........close the propertys box and the root dolphin and try agin as you with a regular dolphin to open the folder you just made and add somthing to it.


VINNY

[oshunluvr]

Re: Can't access 2nd partition

If you want full time normal access - that is to say you want it available all the time when you log in. Follow these steps and enter these commands (in BOLD) into a terminal window:

1. Create a mount point.

Anything you want is fine, but I suggest creating a mount point within your home directory since you're planning on using this as file storage - like /home/<YOURUSERNAME>/Media. So the command in a terminal to do this is:

mkdir /home/<YOURUSERNAME>/Media

2. Edit fstab to mount your new directory at boot time.
In the terminal window:

sudo kate /etc/fstab

add the this line at the end of the file;

/dev/sda5 /home/<YOURUSERNAME>/Media xfs defaults 1 2

substitute your device name for /dev/sda5 in the above example. /etc/fstab needs a carriage return at the end of the file so leave one extra blank line at the end when you save it.

finally, lets mount it so you can use it now with;

sudo mount -a

[ke7omc]

Re: Can't access 2nd partition

I tried both of these solutions and neither of them worked. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. When I open Dolphin the Places Panel lists Home, Network, Root, Trash, and PC Floppy Drive. But neither seemed to work. In oshunluvr's solution when I type in sudo mount -a it says "mount: mount point xfs does not exist" and nothing really changes. I also tried vinnywright's solution, but I still don't see a change. Am I doing something wrong?

[oshunluvr]

Re: Can't access 2nd partition

The mount point does not exists means either you didn't create one or you mis-typed it when you edited fstab.

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't access 2nd partition

Post your /etc/fstab file so we can see how you set it up.

[ke7omc]

Re: Can't access 2nd partition

Alright. Now I have run into a problem. I was running some bug updates (180 to be exact) it was 72% done (it had been about an hour) and then my mom said she needed to use the internet. So I shut down my computer and just assumed that I could pick up from where I left off later. I was using the ethernet cable in my computer, so then I unplugged it and put it in the regular computer. When I went back to boot up my computer (the one with kubuntu) it had a bunch of errors and wouldn't boot so then I thought I had ruined a part of the OS so then I decided I would just reinstall the OS and set it up like before. Well I was about 25% done and then an error message popped up saying the installation failed probably because I had a faulty cd or hard disk. So then I shut the computer down took out the disk and found it only had a scratch or 2, but I guess they are bad enough to effect the disk. Then if I try to boot the computer up from the hard drive it says

GRUB LOADING.
error: file not found
grub rescue>

The problem is is that that was my only disk, and my computer's BIOS doesn't have the option to boot up from a USB port. So I'm going to try and get a new disk in the next few days and try to reinstall it. So until then thanks for the help so far.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Can't access 2nd partition

you need to start a new thread.

[DAB4970]

Re: Can't access 2nd partition

What I did after formatting a USB flash drive in ext4 was this:

In Bash (konsole), typed "kdesudo dolphin". It opened up. I selected the flash drive on the left. In the open white space, I right-clicked and selected "Properties" and changed the USER to my LogIn name. And closed Dolphin and then closed Bash. Re-opened Dolphin, and I had access.