Ktorrent xpert needed.

[Steven Vollom]

On Thursday 26 February 2009 02:40:19 Nils Kassube wrote:
> Steven Vollom wrote:
> > I don't have the foggiest idea why it doesn't show up.
> >
> > steven at Studio25:~$ sudo cat /etc/fstab
> >
> > /dev/sdb5 /media/sdb5 ext3 owner, ...
> > /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ext3 owner, ...
> > /dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 auto users, ...
>
> According to these lines the partitions sda1, sdb5 and sdc1 should only be
> mounted manually. If you haven't mounted them you can't see the disk
> usage on them with the df command. Is there a reason why you mount them
> manually? And why do you use "owner" instead of "users" for the first two
> lines? Is both maybe a result of using disk&filesystems to make the fstab
> entries?
>
> And perhaps you could reduce my (our?) level of confusion if you clarify
> from which system (Hardy or Intrepid) the commands are. Do I understand
> it correctly, that you are now searching for files which were downloaded
> by the other Kubuntu version?
>
>
> Nils
I did not enter the words owner or users. I don't know enough about it.  When 
I am in Hardy, the media files are located in sda5, sda7 or sdb5.  When I am in 
Intrepid, they are named disk, disk-1 and disk-2.  Recently where they used to 
be identified by disk, disk-1, and disk-2, they are now identified as Volume 
(ext3)  they all are identified the exact same way.  The only way I know which 
one I am opening, is by their position.  The first Volume (ext3) is sda7, the 
second Volume (ext3) is sda5, and the third Volume (ext3) is sdb5.  
Additionally I don't seem to be able to change their name.

I have no idea how or why this has happened.  I can't think of anything I have 
done that might have changed them in any way.  They just occurred 
unexpectedly.  This naming has even screwed up my Torrent downloads, because I 
can not use the names they now go by to transfer downloads to or to save them 
in.  I am fortunate that I have figured out a way to understand which one is 
which.  I am able to continue to work then.

I know no one considers this possibility, but for three years now, this 
computer has continually produced surprises in the way it works, and the kind 
of errors that are created using it.  A couple of times, some pretty sharp 
computer users have worked with me to try to figure it out.  In the end, when 
they were present when things actually happened, they could not figure out why.  
Most of the time they could work around the problem, but not really know why 
they happen.  I have come to accept it.  Nonetheless someone will almost 
curtly respond to one of my problems and accuse me of doing things I am not 
doing.  I have wondered what it might be, but I don't really think so.

What I think doesn't make any sense to people who know stuff, but I think maybe 
in a critical area of the motherboard, a wire or connection is loose.  From 
time to time it moves, and because of where it is located, and because the 
problem changes when it happens with different applications running, it caused 
a plethora of varying error results.  This is how a person who doesn't know 
how electrical things actually work thinks, at least me.  It seem a way that 
could cause numerous unpredictable results that are not caused by the obvious, 
the user.  Funny thing is, I am probably or may be right.  If you could view a 
log of all the crazy things that have happened in the past 3 years, you would 
consider it mostly unlikely and possibly impossible for anyone to be that 
smart, or that stupid.  I am willing to take the blame for it all but have no 
idea what I did.  

Steven