How do I activate my sdb5 partition and have it stay active continually.

[Matthew Flaschen]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> Am I supposed to type into the terminal:
> 
> = Download the deb for ubuntu and...
> 
> I will wait for a little more input before I proceed.  Thanks to you all.

I don't think you need to download anything.  As I understand it, you
have a /dev/sdb5 partition, mounted on /media/sdb5, and your problem is
that you can't write to /media/sdb5 .  Try the following (/media/sdb5
should already be mounted, because of your new fstab):

sudo chown steven:steven /media/sdb5
mkdir /media/sdb5/NewDirectory
touch /media/sdb5/NewDirectory/test.txt

Post any output (there should be none, other than the sudo prompt, if it
works).

This changes ownership on the root directory of the filesystem to you,
then creates a directory and a file to test.  Afterwards, post the
output of:

ls -ld /media/sdb5
ls -ld /media/sdb5/NewDirectory
ls -l /media/sdb5/NewDirectory

Best,

Matt Flaschen