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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>> Nils Kassube wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>     
>
> 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.
>   
I don't use Gnome either, Kubuntu Hardy.  
Kmenu>SystemSettings>AdvancedTab>Disk&Filesystems
>   
>>> sudo mkdir /media/sdb5/$USER
>>> sudo chown $USER /media/sdb5/$USER
>>>       
I just did what you instructed and here is what happened:
steven at Studio25:~$ sudo mkdir /media/sdb5/$USER
[sudo] password for steven:
steven at Studio25:~$ sudo chown $USER /media/sdb5/$USER
steven at Studio25:~$

What did I just do?  Thanks, I am belly laughing right now.  It makes me 
so happy when an old, old problem is solved.  There is a folder named 
steven that  can contain data now. 

Thanks,
Friend
>> 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.
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>
> Nils
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