Inexperienced with shell, however, trying to learn how to use terminal to fix mount problem.

[Robert Parker]

OK, going back a while you said you did not have permission to use the
partition you want to use for data.
Please post the output of using the command:
mount
just like that, no options. That should get to the bottom of your
permissions problem.
Bob

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Steven Vollom
<stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> My sdb 5 partition is unusable.  sdb1 is the partition that contains my
> OS.  sdb5 is empty with an access denied.  Additionally, sda1 is ext3
> bootable 15gb I would like to put Intrepid in there, but haven't been
> able.  Below is my current fdisk -l.
> This stuff is above my head; perhaps not after today.
>
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x47a447a3
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        1824    14651248+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            1825       24792   184490460    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5           16523       24792    66428775   83  Linux
> /dev/sda6            1825        2006     1461852   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda7            2007       16522   116599738+  83  Linux
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xffffffff
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1        2591    20812176   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb2            2592        2856     2128612+  82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sdb3            2857        9964    57095010    5  Extended
> /dev/sdb5            2857        9964    57094978+  83  Linux
>
> If it helps to know, sda2 and sda5 are storage.  sdb5 is intended
> storage.  I am sure you can probably see that partitioning and mounting
> were done by an inexperienced user with little knowledge of how to
> perform the task.  It was done by experimentation and mostly works.
> Thanks for any help you may provide that straightens it out and makes
> sdb5 functional.  Also, I would just love to drop a live Intrepid CD in
> the ROM and have it request install on sda1.  Thanks in advance for your
> help and patience with me.
>
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