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

[Steven Vollom]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> Steven Vollom wrote:
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>> My sdb 5 partition is unusable.  sdb1 is the partition that contains my
>> OS.  sdb5 is empty with an access denied.  
>>     
>
> What do you mean with "access denied"? As a normal user you can't write to 
> the partition because it is owned by root. I suggest you create a 
> directory as root on the partition and change the ownership for your user 
> ID. You can do it in a terminal with these commands:
>   
Nils, I don't have experience, however, in the past, after I have 
created a partition, I go to System Settings on the menu then Advanced, 
then Disk&Filesystems, get Administrative privileges then Highlight the 
partition that I want to mount and click on Enable.  Then I am usually 
able to put data in that partition.  When I followed that process and 
attempted to put data in that partition, I was denied.  It said Access 
Denied.  I am pretty sure that is what I did with the other partitions 
that I use for storage.
> sudo mkdir /media/sdb5/$USER
> sudo chown $USER /media/sdb5/$USER
>   
Where it says USER, do I type in steven
> Maybe you need to modify the commands at the "sdb5" part depending where 
> the partition is mounted.
>   
It is mounted at /media/sdb5.
>   
>> Additionally, sda1 is ext3 
>> bootable 15gb I would like to put Intrepid in there, but haven't been
>> able.
>>     
>
> Can you explain how you tried to put Intrepid on that partition?
>   
That wasn't the purpose of this post.  As I recall, I put a live CD in 
the ROM and was unable to install when clicking on install.  It was 
normal procedure.  I just wasn't successful, and let it go, until I 
fixed the bootable partition problem.  I don't even have the CD right 
now; I gave it to someone else.  So, I couldn't duplicate the problem at 
the moment.  My Hardy OS is working fine, I was just unable to dual-boot 
with Intrepid.
>
> Nils
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