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

[Steven Vollom]

David McGlone wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Thanks for the advice, David.  Cheers!