[SOLVED]How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

[vinnywright]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

yes Kubuntu is still using the sda5 for your /home .................this is a good thing and I would leave it .

do you want to leave it as is and just link the Ubuntu's /home/you DIR's you mentioned to the one's in your Kubuntu /home.

you will have access to them from both and whatever gets DL'ed to one of the Ubuntu's /home/you DIR's will go to the linked DIR's on sda5....yes/no/different idea ?

VINNY

[wanderingarcticfox]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

yes Kubuntu is still using the sda5 for your /home .................this is a good thing and I would leave it .

do you want to leave it as is and just link the Ubuntu's /home/you DIR's you mentioned to the one's in your Kubuntu /home.

you will have access to them from both and whatever gets DL'ed to one of the Ubuntu's /home/you DIR's will go to the linked DIR's on sda5....yes/no/different idea ?

VINNY

The simple answer is yes, this is what I started the thread about but I got myself all mixed up along the way

I want to link [if that is the correct term] sda3 /home/music /home/Documents and /home/Pictures to sda5

[vinnywright]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

OK go back to Ubuntu and play with your vid driver and get that right then when your done you will ....from in Ubuntu

sudo mkdir /mnt/sda5

sda5 can be any name you want I used sda5 so you emediatly recogniz it and thats what it will be ......sda5 mounted in a directory named sda5.

now open the /etc/fstab as root with gedit

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

and add this line

UUID=2a065d80-b9f8-4e5b-9101-ee353f766466 /mnt/sda5 ext4 defaults 0 0

so the file looks like this....

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=17e0f0ca-e19a-4d64-a5bb-a1bc7d0798c6 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

UUID=2a065d80-b9f8-4e5b-9101-ee353f766466 /etc/sda5 ext4 defaults 0 0

# swap was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=4709b0a7-9d40-4558-a02a-4eae32d1f224 none swap sw 0 0

save and close gedit .....go back to a terminall and

sudo mount -a

now go to places>home folder nautilus will open in your /home folder .....press F3 and it will/should go split window.........now navagate one side(leave the other in /home/you) to file system /mnt/sda5 when your in the sda5 directory (folder) you should see your /home /you(whatever your name is in Kubuntu)folder open it and thare should be your ~/Documents,~/Music,and so forth........now wear ready to start............rite click the music folder in Ubuntu's /home you and delete it........... rite click the music folder in /mnt/sda5/you/ and then make link ....it will make a link THEIR and you drag it over to the other pane and drop it .....right click it and then properties and make shure it's pointing to(it seas points to....) /mnt/sda5/you/Music ..........if so repeat for the rest of the folders you want to link to if not or if any part of this goes south stop and report ware it messed up and what happened

we shell return...................

VINNY

[wanderingarcticfox]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

Vinny, I ran these in the order you said but while I was in gedit a 'failed' note came up in the terminal.
Checking in with you before I continue.

~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/sda5

~$ gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

This line six times while in gedit

(gedit:1919): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory

$ sudo mount -a

I did not continue with instructions at this time I wanted to report this terminal out-put while I was in gedit to be sure that I can continue.

[vinnywright]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

did gedit open and let you edit the file ?

VINNY

[wanderingarcticfox]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

did gedit open and let you edit the file ?

VINNY

Yes; here are the out-puts in Ubuntu Terminal>

~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000008af

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1459 11717632 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 1459 8754 58593280 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 * 8754 16049 58593750 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 16049 182402 1336231937 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 16049 46443 244140032 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 46443 52521 48827392 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 52522 58600 48827392 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 58600 70758 97654784 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 70758 82915 97654784 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 82916 182402 799122432 83 Linux

~$ sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 56G 3.7G 49G 8% /
none 7.9G 716K 7.9G 1% /dev
none 7.9G 1.3M 7.9G 1% /dev/shm
none 7.9G 96K 7.9G 1% /var/run
none 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /var/lock
/dev/sda5 230G 687M 217G 1% /mnt/sda5

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=495bdfa8-934d-47a0-bb7b-5aa481566548 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

UUID=2a065d80-b9f8-4e5b-9101-ee353f766466 /mnt/sda5 ext4 defaults 0 0

# swap was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=4709b0a7-9d40-4558-a02a-4eae32d1f224 none swap sw 0 0

I included all three out-puts so you can have the information in upfront.

[oshunluvr]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

Ok in your Ubuntu home directory, remove the empty folders that you want to link to, i.e. Documents, Music, Pictures, etc. Then in a terminal link to the other directories like this;

ln -s /mnt/sda5/Documents ~/Documents

repeat for each folder

[wanderingarcticfox]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

I want to say that at this time in Ubuntu , Nautilus, I am not seeing the sda5 rive as before. I am going to proceed with Oshunlvr's command line entries for the three folders after removing, deleting them from the sda3 home folder.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
df -h after above coompleted

~$ sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 56G 3.8G 49G 8% /
none 7.9G 716K 7.9G 1% /dev
none 7.9G 200K 7.9G 1% /dev/shm
none 7.9G 96K 7.9G 1% /var/run
none 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /var/lock
/dev/sda5 230G 687M 217G 1% /mnt/sda5
/dev/sda2 56G 4.2G 49G 8% /media/a316ce82-60e6-4d3a-9881-53a76f3486e0

When in Nautilus I click on the Documents folder [it has some new icons on the folder icon] and I get this message; This Link cannot be used. because its target"/mnt/sda5/Documents" doesn't exist.

Q1] this was expected? Q2] do I need to go to Kubuntu to modify sda5? I no longer see it in Nautilus.

[vinnywright]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

post

ls -l /mnt/sda5

from in Ubuntu (thats a lower case L in the command)

VINNY

[wanderingarcticfox]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions


oceansnperil@:~$ sudo ls -l /mnt/sda5
[sudo] password for oceansnperil:
total 20
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2011-09-20 21:33 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 38 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-26 20:01 oceans-n-peril

o-n-p>>sda3

oceansnperil>>sda3/home

oceans-n-peril>>>sda2

Just listed the 'names' to help avoid confusion.

[vinnywright]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

no Sir in the line

drwxr-xr-x 38 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-26 20:01 oceans-n-peril

the "oceansnperil oceansnperil" is the user and group that the file oceans-n-peril belongs to .......the file oceans-n-peril IS sda5

your link line should be

ln -s /mnt/sda5/ oceans-n-peril/Documents ~/Documents

you half to include the actual path in any command like this you use (check that rutebook I had you DL)


if you ls -l /mnt/sda5/ oceans-n-peril you should see all the folders your trying to link to .


VINNY

[wanderingarcticfox]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

In Ubuntu the name is oceansnperil with no dashes in Kubutnu it is oceans-n-peril with the dashes.

I will run the commands again for Music, Doc.'s and Pictures and post.

oceansnperil@o-n-p:~$ sudo ln -s /mnt/sda5/ oceans-n-peril/Documents ~/Documents[sudo] password for oceansnperil:
ln: target `/home/oceansnperil/Documents' is not a directory
oceansnperil@o-n-p:~$ sudo ln -s /mnt/sda5/ oceansinperil/documents ~/Documents
ln: target `/home/oceansnperil/Documents' is not a directory
oceansnperil@o-n-p:~$ sudo ln -s /mnt/sda5/ oceansnperil/Music ~/Music
ln: target `/home/oceansnperil/Music' is not a directory
oceansnperil@o-n-p:~$ sudo ln -s /mnt/sda5/ oceansnperil/Pictures ~/Pictures
ln: target `/home/oceansnperil/Pictures' is not a directory
oceansnperil@o-n-p:~$ sudo ln -s /mnt/sda5/ oceans-n-peril/Music ~/Music
ln: target `/home/oceansnperil/Music' is not a directory
oceansnperil@o-n-p:~$ sudo ln -s /mnt/sda5/ oceans-n-peril/Pictures ~/Pictures
ln: target `/home/oceansnperil/Pictures' is not a directory

This is what I just ran in the Terminal. I ran it both ways with and without the dashes.

oceansnperil@o-n-p:~$ ls -l /mnt/sda5/ oceans-n-peril
ls: cannot access oceans-n-peril: No such file or directory
/mnt/sda5/:
total 20
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2011-09-20 21:33 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 38 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-26 20:01 oceans-n-peril


oceansnperil@o-n-p:~$ sudo ls -l /mnt/sda5/ oceansnperil
ls: cannot access oceansnperil: No such file or directory
/mnt/sda5/:
total 20
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2011-09-20 21:33 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 38 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-26 20:01 oceans-n-peril

From Nautilus
/home/oceansnperil/Music
/home/oceansnperil/Pictures
/home/oceansnperil/Documents

All show as 'Link is Broken' is this where the problem is?

[vinnywright]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

so what do you get when you run

ls -l /mnt/sda5/oceans-n-peril

VINNY

[wanderingarcticfox]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

oceansnperil@o-n-p:~$ sudo ls -l /mnt/sda5/oceans-n-peril
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 2 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-22 15:09 Audiobooks
drwxr-xr-x 2 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-20 21:47 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-25 17:45 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-20 21:47 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 4 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-25 14:13 home
drwxr-xr-x 2 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-20 21:47 Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-20 21:47 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-22 15:09 Podcasts
drwxr-xr-x 2 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-20 21:47 Public
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240 2011-09-22 08:08 rutebook.desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-20 21:47 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 oceansnperil oceansnperil 4096 2011-09-20 21:47 Videos

***Note*** I have noticed something strange in Nautilus but wait for you to ask.

[vinnywright]

Re: How do I link Primary to logical Partitions

sory my bad .......that link command shouldn't have had a space between sda5 and oceans-n-peril it should be

sudo ln -s /mnt/sda5/oceans-n-peril/Music ~/Music

for say the Music folder (directory)
you are doing

sory...........what is the thing you noticed in Nautilus ......I'm 2 sheet's to the wind right now don't keep me in suspense

VINNY