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

[David McGlone]

On Friday 21 November 2008 9:39:05 pm Steven Vollom wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Steven Vollom wrote:
> >> Nils Kassube wrote:
> >>> 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
> >
> > Well, like I wrote in the other mail, I was a bit confused about the
> > list, so I realised that you aren't using Gnome after I sent that remark.
> > And now I had a look at Disk&Filesystems. It seems to be a tool to
> > maintain the /etc/fstab file, but there is no help available, so I
> > will not play with the settings.
> >
> >> 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?
> >
> > You did what I wrote in my original mail. First you created a directory
> > with the command "mkdir /media/sdb5/$USER". Only root was allowed to
> > write to the partition, so you needed root privilege. Therefore the
> > command was prepended with "sudo". Then you changed the ownership from
> > root to yourself with the command "chown $USER /media/sdb5/$USER". And
> > again, only root was allowed to do that, so the "sudo" command was needed
> > again. Now, if you are really curious about these commands you can have a
> > look at the man pages. Type "man:sudo" in the address bar of Konqueror
> > without quotes and also "man:mkdir" and "man:chown".
> >
> >> There is a folder
> >> named steven that  can contain data now.
> >
> > And if you want to access your new folder more easily you can create a
> > link in your home directory with a command like this:
> >
> > ln -s /media/sdb5/$USER $HOME/sdb5
> >
> >
> > Nils
>
> I wish I didn't have so many things going at once right now.  This is
> what I would like to do, but it takes a lot of concentration for me to
> absorb, and I am distracted by all the other projects.  I think I will
> take one day and relax my brain.  I hope you are around when I get
> back.  I am so tired.  Sleep is not rejuvinating me.

It can get overwhelming. With so many subjects to cover with computers, a 
surefire way to not overwhelm yourself is to set aside a week or 2 for 
learning 1 thing at a time. Get the basics down of each area and over time you 
can expand on the basics when the occasion arises.

In college they taught us starting with hardware. IMHO, A good foundation of 
understanding hardware and how it works, helps in understanding software.

I've been using OSS since somewhere around '99` and I still get stumped from 
time to time, even on the most obvious things.

-- 
David M.