Some Mounting information seems missing?

[Steven Vollom]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> Steven Vollom wrote:
>   
>> Nils Kassube wrote:
>>     
>>> Now, to clean up the mess I created on your machine, it would be good
>>> if you mount the partition sdb5 via Disk&Filesystems the usual way
>>> you are familiar with. Then enter these commands
>>>
>>> mount
>>> ls /media /media/sdb5
>>>
>>> in a terminal and copy the output to a mail.
>>>       
>> steven at Studio25:~$ ls /media /media/sdb5
>> /media:
>> cdrom  cdrom0  cdrom1  floppy  floppy0  sda1  sda5  sda7  sda8  sdb3 
>> sdb5
>>
>> /media/sdb5:
>> lost+found  steven
>> steven at Studio25:~$
>>     
>
> OK, that was the output of the ls command. But how about the output of the 
> mount command? There seems to be a partition mounted at /media/sdb5 now 
> but I'm not sure it is the right one. And that could be clarified with 
> the output of mount.
>
>   
>> On this particular page is it normal to not show the primary partitions
>> and swap partitions?
>>     
>
> On my machine it does show all partitions - I have no idea why you can't 
> see them. IIRC, you are using Kubuntu 8.04, don't you?
>
>   
>> Thanks!  Sorry to put you to so much trouble.  Is Enabling the same as
>> Mounting?  To get sdb5 alive again showing the /steven folder, I went
>> to Disk&Filesystems, highlighted sdb5 in Administrator mode, and
>> clicked on enable.  That made /sdb5/steven accessible.  
>>     
>
> OK, now I understand how you mount the partition and I had to do some 
> experiments to understand what happens. If you use this page and enter a 
> mount point for a partition it creates an entry in the file /etc/fstab 
> for the partition. Furthermore it creates the mount point directory. If 
> you then enable the partition it will be mounted. However it isn't useful 
> to go to the administrator mode each time you want to mount the 
> partition. Therefore I suggest you go to that page one more time. Select 
> the sdb5 partition and clich the "Modify ..." button. For the "Mount 
> permission" select "Any user may enable/disable any time" and click "OK". 
> That way you don't need administrator mode to mount the partition.
>   
Dear Nils,

I opened SystemSettings>Advanced>Disk&Filesystems>Modify,
there was no mount option that I could see.  The window that opened has 
a box at the top that says
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                             Type:  proc
                              Mount Point:      /proc
                              Options              defaults

The rest of the window is blank with OK and Cancel options at the bottom.
______________________________________________________________________________________
> Finally we'll create a shortcut for the partition so you can access it 
> more easily. Right click on the empty desktop and select "Create 
> New" -> "Link to device" -> "Hard disk device ...". At the "General" tab 
> enter a name for the shortcut. At the "Device" tab select the 
> device "/dev/sdb5" and click "OK". Now when you want to access the 
> partition, just click the shortcut and the disk will be mounted if 
> necessary and then it will be opened with Dolphin.
>   
I carefully followed your instruction until the shortcut was on the 
desktop.  When I clicked on the shortcut, I got the following Error - 
KDesktop
The desktop entry file
/home/steven/Desktop/%2fdev$2fsdb5 is of type FSDevice but has no 
Dev=...entry.
                                                                OK

I know that is not what you expected, however I expected the mount point 
to be /media/sdb5 and it was /proc  and the Disk&Filesystems GUI view 
shows it mounted as /media/sdb5  ext3 filing system /dev/seb5, enabled.
> Nils
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