By viewing my Disk&File Systems in Hardy, can anyone see why one HDD is partially crippled?

[Steven Vollom]

Robert Parker wrote:
> Steven,
>
> Getting back to your OP, you said 'permission denied' I think. Maybe I 
> missed something here but I think I'd be starting with:
> sudo fdisk -l
> on the system with the 80 gig Maxtor. You will get a list of the 
> partition types on the drive.
> Then post the output of that to the list.
> BTW the option to fdisk is 'l' for lollipop not the figure 'one'. In 
> my typeface it's hard to see the difference ymmv.
>
> Bob
> -- 
> In a world without walls who needs Windows (or Gates)? Try Linux instead!
>
 Apparently I just deleted an important email.  Perhaps you can advise 
with part of the info.  It started with something like sudo mkdir 
/dev/sdb5/$USER  ???
then chown /dev/sdb5/$USER.  Does that look partially familiar to create 
a folder named steven in my unusable sdb5 which holds data.  I tried it 
and it works.