Mounting hard disks in Kubuntu [answered]

[jonfr]

While I am not an new to Linux, as I am experienced Gentoo Linux user. I am new to Kubuntu. But I am going to switch to Kubuntu after Gentoo Linux does not meet my needs for desktop use.

I already know all the basics in Linux, so that is not going to be an problem. What I do not know is this.

How do I mount hard disks in Kubuntu. There are differences from Gentoo Linux.

My partion setup is like this.

df -h
Filesystem      Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs         26G  23G 1,5G 95% /
/dev/sda3       26G  23G 1,5G 95% /
rc-svcdir       1,0M 104K 920K 11% /lib/rc/init.d
udev          10M 344K 9,7M  4% /dev
none         1,5G 100K 1,5G  1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4       202G 186G 6,0G 97% /home
/dev/sdc1       917G 710G 162G 82% /mnt/1tb.drive
/dev/sdd1       230G  48G 171G 22% /mnt/Sci-fi
/dev/sdb1       230G  92G 126G 43% /mnt/tv-sci-fi-3

I also need how to control my samba shares and setup. But I use samba share to connect to shares on both Windows and my other Gentoo Linux computers. Before I move to Kubuntu I am doing to backup the most needed configuration files.

Thanks for the help.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Mounting hard disks in Kubuntu [question]

The primary way mount is in /etc/fstab using UUID, device name or label:

UUID=1be~~~09f / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2
/dev/sda5 /home reiserfs notail 0 2
LABEL=DATA_DRIVE /data reiserfs notail 0 2

etc...

You can mount network shares this way or allow the system to mount them for you. Obviously, there's lots of options and ways to do it, depends on your desires. Based on your df output...

/dev/sda3    /
/dev/sda4    /home
/dev/sdc1    /mnt/1tb.drive
/dev/sdd1    /mnt/Sci-fi
/dev/sdb1    /mnt/tv-sci-fi-3

Each line followed by filesystem type, options, dump freq, pass number should get you going. The installer will allow you to specify mounts at install time if you select Manual Partitioning.

Samba is for a different thread and there's many how to's on this forum.

[jonfr]

Re: Mounting hard disks in Kubuntu [question]

I am going to keep my fstab config file and the samba config file so I can type up settings (or copy) from them I am setting up kubuntu. Is it all good to manual edit the fstab in Kubuntu ?

[oshunluvr]

Re: Mounting hard disks in Kubuntu [question]

That's what I do. There is a GUI tool - KDE Partition Manager, but I usually go right to fstab itself.

I usually research the best options for a particular filesystem and want to do those kind of things directly.

As far as samba, it very likely your current config will work as is. Simple enough to do a compare once you've got your install going.

BTW, Welcome to KFN.

[jonfr]

Re: Mounting hard disks in Kubuntu [question]

That's what I do. There is a GUI tool - KDE Partition Manager, but I usually go right to fstab itself.

I usually research the best options for a particular filesystem and want to do those kind of things directly.

As far as samba, it very likely your current config will work as is. Simple enough to do a compare once you've got your install going.

BTW, Welcome to KFN.

Thanks. I don't trust partition managers that well. I have already installed Kubuntu. I hope that all of my problems can be solved. Because if not, then I am going to go back to Gentoo Linux.