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

[Steven Vollom]

On Monday 05 January 2009 12:31:56 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2009, Steven Vollom wrote:
> >> /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ext3 owner,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
> >>
> >> The difference is in the second option, I changed it from "/media" to
> >> "/media/sda1".
> >
> >I think I screwed up.  I opened the GUI  to look at the partitions in
> >Disk&Filesystems.  I expected to find sda1 with a mount point of
> >/media/sda1.  It showed as /media/sdb1 instead of /media/sda1.  I then
> >opened the Konsole and entered sudo kedit /media/sdb2  to try to get to
> >that error.  This is what came on the Konsole:
> >
> >steven at Studio25:~$ sudo kedit /media/sdb1
> >[sudo] password for steven:
> >Error: "/tmp/kde-steven" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
> >
> >kedit opened to a blank page and in the title bar it reads /media/sdb1 -
> >KEdit <2>, like I have two KEdit windows open.
>
> Oops, close that without saving.
>
> >I want to go back and edit the mount point as /media/sda1.
>
> A 'mount point' is nothing more nor less than a directory.  If there is
> nothing in it, it can be removed with an 'rmdir', see the manpage.
>
> If there is something in that directory, probably because something was
> stored there when no media was mounted, then if its precious, mv (see the
> manpage) it to someplace safe.
>
> Now, please understand that if I had a /media/westernsteer directory, I can
> mount any partition visible to the system on that mount point with the
> mount command.
>
> Demo (all as root or sudo'd, and the # sign is the shell prompt, no pound
> sign its the response to the command:
>
> # mkdir /media/westernsteer
> # df
> (and get:)
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb3            468832020  97119656 347512852  22% /
> /dev/sdb1               194442     81057    103346  44% /boot
> /dev/sdc1            384578164 298590648  66452076  82% /amandatapes
> tmpfs                  2075600         0   2075600   0% /dev/shm
>
> The above to verify where my /boot is (this box is an odd bird), then
>
> # mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /media/westernsteer
> # ls /media/westernsteer
> config-2.6.25.14-69.fc8  initrd-2.6.25.14-69.fc8.img  memdisk
> System.map-2.6.27-rc4     vmlinuz-2.6.26.5-28.fc8
> config-2.6.26.3-14.fc8   initrd-2.6.26.3-14.fc8.img   System.map
> System.map-2.6.27-rc5     vmlinuz-2.6.26.6-49.fc8
> config-2.6.26.5-28.fc8   initrd-2.6.26.5-28.fc8.img
> System.map-2.6.25.14-69.fc8  System.map-2.6.27-rc6     vmlinuz-2.6.27.2
> config-2.6.26.6-49.fc8   initrd-2.6.26.6-49.fc8.img   System.map-2.6.26
> System.map-2.6.27-rc7     vmlinuz-2.6.27.3
> config-2.6.26.gz         initrd-2.6.26.img
> System.map-2.6.26.3-14.fc8   System.map-2.6.27-rc7-4   vmlinuz-2.6.27-4
> config-2.6.27.2.gz       initrd-2.6.27.2.img
> System.map-2.6.26.5-28.fc8   System.map-2.6.27-rc8     vmlinuz-2.6.27.4
> config-2.6.27.3.gz       initrd-2.6.27.3.img
> System.map-2.6.26.6-49.fc8   System.map-2.6.27-rc8-4   vmlinuz-2.6.27.5
> config-2.6.27-4.gz       initrd-2.6.27-4.img          System.map-2.6.27.2
> System.map-2.6.27-rc9-4   vmlinuz-2.6.27.6
> config-2.6.27.4.gz       initrd-2.6.27.4.img          System.map-2.6.27.3
> System.map-2.6.28         vmlinuz-2.6.28
> config-2.6.27.5.gz       initrd-2.6.27.5.img          System.map-2.6.27-4
> System.map-2.6.28.old
> config-2.6.27.6.gz       initrd-2.6.27.6.img          System.map-2.6.27.4
> vmlinuz-2.6.25.14-69.fc8
> config-2.6.28.gz         initrd-2.6.28.img            System.map-2.6.27.5
> vmlinuz-2.6.26
> grub                     lost+found                   System.map-2.6.27.6
> vmlinuz-2.6.26.3-14.fc8
>
> It is in fact, my /boot partition, mounted someplace else.  Now, clean up
> the mess I just made:
>
> # umount /media/westernsteer
> # rmdir /media/westernsteer
> # ls /media/westernsteer
> ls: cannot access /media/westernsteer: No such file or directory
>
> Does this help your understanding of how this works?
>
> >Steven
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
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>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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> 	other hand, if he were already in, I don't think they'd let him out."

Thanks for trying Gene, but I am going to have to mature a bit in linux.  I 
just get confused when I look at a page like this.  Sorry to be so slow.

Steven