Adding another hard drive FIXED!!!!!!!!!

[JAFN]

I have been trying to RTFM, but I am not seeming to get anywhere. I have Kubuntu 7.10 32 bit running on a 320gig SATA drive. it is stable it is working, I am happy. I have a 500gig PATA drive I would love to have access to and possible use as /home. I have created and formated an ext3 partition on it using gparted. When i go into Dolphin and try and mount it I get this error:

hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000

I also have a 120gig PATA drive that currently has a NTFS partition on it that when I try and mout it it also gives me the same error. I have several USB PATA drive with NTFS that I can mount and access. Both the 500 and the 120 drives are on the same cable.

Any ideas?

[JAFN]

Re: Adding another hard drive

Found a couple of things. First there is a know bug/feature in ubuntu 7.10https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...al/+bug/153768.

kbsolo on http://www.debianhelp.org/node/10926 was nice enough to post a command line walk through that has worked.

kbsolo - Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - 22:16

I don't know how to use the gui, I don't use it as I want to learn the console way.
but since nobody answered you, I will advise you to log into the terminal from the kde (you may like it)
then look for your new HD
ls -l /dev/hd*
it will show up as hdb or hdc

you need to mount that drive since Etch didn't (which I don't understand why)
you will make a new dir in the root /

mkdir /newHD
then you'll mount the drive to that new directory
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb /newHD

you can make a symlink to your desktop:
ln -s /newHD Desktop/mynewHD that's the shortcut to your new drive.

then you should edit your /etc/fstab file
(you should log into your console as su and first change the properties of fstab in /etc/fstab :

chmod 765 /etc/fstab
then copy it to your own dir
cp /etc/fstab fstab
you can always edit it directly by opening it with the GUI

you need to add a line for that new drive in your fstab:
/dev/hdb /newHD ext3 rw,user,noauto 0 0
save this fstab file and cp back to etc/fstab
cp fstab /etc/fstab

forgot to tell you to edit the /boot/grub/device.map file:
chmod same as above to allow you to edit it from your desktop or edit it when logged as su:
(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/hdc
(hd2) /dev/sda
change accordingly to your own installation.

it's more fun than using the GUI, isn't it?
I like it better anyway. I do come from Winy... won't go back.
Debian is a great system!