Cannot read partitions

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> On a recently converted windows machine, I had three NTFS partitions in
> /media: /media/hda1
> /media/hdb1
> /media/hdb5
> 
> After installing Ubuntu, the user could read each of these partitions
> (but could not write to them). /media/hda1 was the old Windows root
> filesystem, with no files worth saving, so today I converted it into
> jfs with gparted. Now, I can not read /media/hdb1 and /media/hdb5.
> When we click those folders in Konqueror (she prefers KDE) we get a

Naturally :-)

> message that the user has no permissions. However, even after running
> "sudo chmod lirondah /media/hdb1" and "sudo chgrp lirondah
> /media/hdb1" running "ls -l" shows that the files still belong to
> root.
> 
> Also, running "sudo mount -a" shows this error:
> mount: special device /dev/disk/by-uuid/04DCED11DCECFE34 does not exist
> 
> That is the UUID for /dev/hda1, the partition that I changed to jfs.

It can't be.  UUIDs are set on a _filesystem_, not a partition.  Since you
changed it from NFTS to jfs, it has a different UUID now.

> What must I chagne to be able to mount this jfs partition?

Change it to /dev/hda1, or add a label and use that instead of uuid, or find
the correct uuid (available from hal and various other places).

-- 
derek