Second Hard Drive issue

[Billie Walsh]

On 05/13/2016 07:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 13 May 2016 14:22:43 Billie Walsh wrote:
>
>> fstab reads
>>
>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>> #
>> # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
>> # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
>> devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See
>> fstab(5). #
>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type> <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>> # / was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
>> UUID=2ac05446-9d15-4b63-8bc0-df4e05a70644 /               ext4
>> errors=remount-ro 0       1
>> # swap was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
>> UUID=d0ae8325-da93-4221-a089-4260762971f6 none            swap
>> sw              0       0
>> #second hard drive
>> UUID=5ec13406-3b24-42a6-be83-89871af43dee Billie0W ext2 auto 0 0
>>
>>
>> Should I add a "/" after Billie0W?
>>
> No.  If dolphin finds it in /media/Billie0W, put that in your /etc/fstab
> as a first step.  Hint, all pathlists in the *nix world start with a
> slash, which is the top most anchor point. In your case, if you do an
>
> ls -l /
>
> You will probably see a /media in the listing, but not an /mnt, so first
> do an
>
> ls -l /media to see if it exists there, and if notso as root, do a
>
> mkdir /media/Billie0W
>
> just to make sure that mount point exists and is not a figment of
> dolphins imagination, just one of the reasons this old timer uses mc to
> do what you are doing with dolphin.
>
> And unless that 2nd drive is 15 years old, it probably is not an ext2
> file system, but ext3, possibly even ext4, all of which are considerably
> more robust a file system than ext2 is. So if it works for ext2, jump to
> ext4 and work backwards until it mounts without fussing about the
> miss-match.  There are tools to convert from 2 to 3 and from 3 to 4
> available but I've not used them in yonks and my memory fades with the
> years as the wet ram is now 81 yo, so I'll let someone else instruct on
> the finer points of those tool usages.
>
>

The output of ls -l / is

total 112
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 13 12:41 Billie0W
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 12288 Apr 26 09:27 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 May 12 06:58 boot
drwxrwxr-x   2 root root  4096 Feb 26  2015 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root  4520 May 13 13:53 dev
drwxr-xr-x 154 root root 12288 May 13 13:53 etc
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 26  2015 home
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    33 May 12 06:56 initrd.img -> 
boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-86-generic
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    33 Apr 26 09:28 initrd.img.old -> 
boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-85-generic
drwxr-xr-x  29 root root  4096 May 12 06:54 lib
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr  3 14:10 lib32
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr  3 14:10 lib64
drwx------   2 root root 16384 Feb 26  2015 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 May 13 13:53 media
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr 10  2014 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 May  8  2015 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 231 root root     0 May 13 13:52 proc
drwx------  10 root root  4096 Jul  2  2015 root
drwxr-xr-x  26 root root   920 May 13 22:44 run
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 12288 Apr 26 09:25 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr 16  2014 srv
dr-xr-xr-x  13 root root     0 May 13 13:52 sys
drwxrwxrwt  10 root root  4096 May 13 23:00 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root  4096 Feb 26  2015 usr
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root  4096 Apr 16  2014 var
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    30 May 12 06:56 vmlinuz -> 
boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-86-generic
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    30 Apr 26 09:28 vmlinuz.old -> 
boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-85-generic

ls -l /media gives

total 8
drwxr-x---+ 2 root     root     4096 May 13 11:50 billie0w
drwxr-xr-x  5 billie0w billie0w 4096 May 13 22:48 Billie0W

Maybe I should have set the mount point as "billie0w" rather than Billie0W.

The drive is not that old. It's a SATA drive on sda. It was the original 
drive in this computer [ AMD quad core with 16 gigs memory ] when I 
bought it a few years ago and had Windows 7 on it. I didn't need Windows 
so I used gparted (sp?) to delete the old partition and created a new 
one using the whole drive. I then formatted it, don't know why ext2, and 
created one directory, Billie0W. In that directory I put all my web site 
files. How "media" got into the mix I have no idea.

-- 
Fast is fine, but accuracy is final.
You must learn to be slow in a hurry.
-Wyatt Earp-

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