[SOLVED] Mounting freshly formatted ex-ntfs partition

[ElWray]

I'm back

Until about 2 hours ago I had a ntfs partition. Mounted in /dos, of course.
I just formatted it with gparted (ext3) and I got a couple of questions.
How do I mount the new partition?
How do I get rid of "/dos"? (on startup I'm always asked about the old ntfs partition)

Thanks,
ElWray

[ElWray]

Re: Mounting freshly formatted ex-ntfs partition

Sorry for double-posting, but I just solved the first part of the problem I guess. I've managed to mount the partition (Kmenu > System Settings > (advanced) Removable Devices - Enable automatic mounting of removable media. I enabled "Automount on login" for the aforementioned partition)

Now everytime I login I'm asked for the password so I can use the new partition and it's rather annoying. Is there any way I can get rid of that or another (better) way to mount the partition so I don't get asked for my password?

The second issue remains however. How do I get rid of "/dos"?

[vinnywright]

Re: Mounting freshly formatted ex-ntfs partition

for the drive ....add it to /etc/fstab
with a line something like this

UUID=aac6ff15-4a58-4a49-b7fa-c5ae40c964e4 /home ext3 relatime 0 2

you will half to make the mount point for it ....somthing like /mnt/storage and put that whare /home is in the exampel.
and I cant remember the comand to list UUID's so just replace that with /dev/sd whatever it is.
lets say it's /dev/sda3 ......so it reads

dev/sda3 /mnt/storage ext3 relatime 0 2

you can find that with

sudo fdisk -l

and make the mount point with

sudo mkdir /mnt/storage

for grub

sudo update-grub

that should remove the (nonexsistent now) windows entrey

VINNY

[ElWray]

Re: Mounting freshly formatted ex-ntfs partition

Serious errors were found while checking the disk drive for /mnt/wh

Press I to ignore, S to skip or M for manual recovery

The partition does show up and seems to function properly though. What do I do about this?

UUID=09ebe892-cd5f-4675-bd4b-d2eba691f878 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dos was on /dev/sda4 during installation
dev/sda4 /mnt/wh ext3 defaults 0 2
# /home was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=1cef41c1-ba2b-4545-a74f-8c80afb95059 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=23df6e2a-5482-4818-9530-ff0a9e53856b none swap sw 0 0

Thx,
ElWray

[vinnywright]

Re: Mounting freshly formatted ex-ntfs partition

humm try using the UUID you can get it with

sudo blkid

ya I rememberd

and if you still have it set in

(Kmenu > System Settings > (advanced) Removable Devices - Enable automatic mounting of removable media. I enabled "Automount on login" for the aforementioned partition)

undo it.

+ check your spacings in fstab and when you edit fstab it's a good idea to place your curser at the end of the file and hit enter once or twice to enshure a proper end of file befor closing it.

allso you may want to unmount it and run

sudo e2fsck -p dev/sda4

on it.

then remount it and see if you get errors.

uther wise I think that should have worked.

editing fstab can be troublesome/dangerus so Keep a live cd at hand so you can start the box and coment out your edit's if somthing go's bad.

VINNY

PS: that end of file thing has goten me befor but it just wouldent boot at all becos fstab couldent be read.............

[ElWray]

Re: Mounting freshly formatted ex-ntfs partition

Just noticed something while at the blkid part:

/dev/sda4: UUID="bee16803-6188-4755-8bbb-87ce2427dbe2" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

SEC_TYPE="ext2" ??

EDIT: used gparted to check and fix the partition just in case;
Changed dev/sda4 with the UUID I got and it all works just fine now. No errors, no complications.

Thanks a lot,
ElWray