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

[Nils Kassube]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Steven Vollom wrote:
> >> 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.

Sorry, I have no experience with Gnome - I'm using KDE where the GUI 
administration is different (and for many things I prefer the command 
line anyway). Therefore I can't tell you how to do it using the GUI 
tools.

> > sudo mkdir /media/sdb5/$USER
> > sudo chown $USER /media/sdb5/$USER
>
> Where it says USER, do I type in steven

If steven is your login name that should work. If you leave it as $USER it 
will work for sure because the shell will replace $USER with your login 
name.

> > Maybe you need to modify the commands at the "sdb5" part depending
> > where the partition is mounted.
>
> It is mounted at /media/sdb5.

OK, then you can use the commands just like I wrote them.


Nils