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

[Steven Vollom]

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 am so confused all the time, I don't remember if 'Disk&Filesystems' is 
how I mount a partition or not.  Eventually I get it done, but I do know 
that when I have a partition that doesn't work, my method of getting it 
to work is to open Disk&Filesystems, open Administrator Mode, highlight 
the item in question, and click on enable.  That usually makes the 
partition function.  When I attempted to make sdb5 work, I did that, but 
it did not make the partition accessible.  It became enabled, but 
remained in the possession of Root. 

I also remember an option that I don't know how to find now, but when it 
is open in Root, I am able to click on a choice for changing 
permissions.  When I choose user, it changes Root Root to User, and I am 
now able to have some control over that package.

Thanks for your patience, friend.

Steven