new guy checking in has new problem(s)

[Jimmy Montague]

Yer too late, Karl: I finally got rid of the file by deleting the
partition a couple more times and then, finally formatted the thing
Reiserfs. If I had to guess what was in it, I'd say it was my old Ubuntu
install (botched first attempt). Now I've got my Ubuntu File System on
the primary strap and my new Reiserfs disk on the secondary strap, both
jumpered Master. I can mount or unmount the new partition, and it shows
up on my desktop as an icon named "80.0 GB Media".

Problems include the fact that I have no idea where it mounts, and I
can't write to it. If I try to write to it, a dialog tells me that I
don't have permission and I should contact root to correct the problem
(The poor penguin doesn't know that in this house, "root" is a dipshit).
So the drive is there, but it's useless.

Advice?

Thanks for your patience.

Jimmy

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 08:21 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> David Fox wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Jimmy Montague
> > <rhetoric102 at iowatelecom.net> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> I tried to do as you said. I got gparted to delete the old partitions
> >> and create a single new partition formatted ext3. Problem is the new
> >> partition has a folder in it called lost+found. It takes up 10g of space
> >> and I can't delete it. So my 80g drive is now a 70 g drive.
> >>     
>     That is way to large for lost+found. You can look inside that 
> directory and see what is there. My experience has been about 10 KB is 
> right. Tell us what you find in that directory.
> 
> Karl
>  
> 
> 
> >
> > That still leaves 12.5% (roughly) of the drive space unused, which
> > seems to be a bit much. lost+found shouldn't take up any space unless
> > files end up in there, otherwise should be empty (that directory is
> > for files that can't be linked to a directory entry anymore on a
> > filesystem check). ext3 and ext2 filesystems reserve a certain space
> > (that is tunable) available by only the superuser, but that's usually
> > 10%, most times only 5%, especially on larger disks. That's there to
> > prevent the filesystem from filling up (not a good idea especially on
> > root partitions) and to minimize fragmentation.
> >
> >   
> >> I can't change the name of the drive or the mount point. gparted simply
> >> doesn't offer me the option of doing either.
> >>     
> >
> > You use other tools for that. e2liabel or volid for disk labels
> > (although they're not necessary) and mount to mount the drive in the
> > new partition. If you edit /etc/fstab and add an entry you can get it
> > to mount where you want to on boot. For instance, I have one of my
> > partitions mounted on /storage (for mp3, avi, that sort of thing).
> >
> > /dev/sdc5         /storage        xfs defaults                0       0
> >
> >   
> 
> 
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> 
> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> 	Linux User
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