Mounting a new drive

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Rashkae wrote:
> Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
>> I have a Hitachi 320gb drive that was until an hour ago formatted as
>> NTFS. It was seen by Gnome and showed up on my desktop. After pulling
>> all its data off, I decided I wanted to reformat it so it would be a
>> "native" file format and no NTFS anymore. So far so good. But now I'm
>> stuck trying to edit /etc/fstab to get it to display. Is there an easy
>> GUI tool to help me do this, like the NTFS configuration tool? Failing
>> that, how do I create a mount point that /etc/fstab will like (I
>> presume on /media/)
>>
>> The partition is /dev/sdd1. Reiser file system. Type-Linux (0x83).
>> Label=Hitachi300. UUID=27bb8f9b-38ab-4398-92c5-4fbc0dd970a1. I'll
>> provide more info if this isn't enough.
> 
> 
> sorry, I don't know of any GUI.  But it's easy enough to do.
> 
> (Either switch to super user mode, or the Ubuntu way, preface all
> commands with sudo.)
> 
> 1. Backup fstab
> 
> cd /etc
> cp fstab fstab.bak
> 
> 2.  You need to create the directory where you will be mounting the
> drive.  This doesn't have to be in /media.  For example, I have a
> /home/data folder that is an entirely different partition.  But assuming
> you use /media/newdrive
> 
> mkdir /media/newdrive
> 
> 3. Edit your fstab file and add the following line to the bottom:
> 
> "UUID=27bb8f9b-38ab-4398-92c5-4fbc0dd970a1 /media/newdrive reiserfs
> noatime 0 2"
> 
> (This is a long line that gets wrapped in my e-mail, but it should all
> be one line.)
> 
> 4. Try mounting the new drive before you reboot, make sure this all
> works without errors.
> 
> mount /media/newdrive
> 
> 5. Assuming I haven't messed up these instructions and everything works.
>  The new drive should, by default, be owned by root.  If you would
> rather the entire drive be owned by your regular user account:
> 
> chown -R username /media/newdrive

That's the part I was missing...creating a new mountpoint under media. 
  (/media/Hitachi300).  I'd already created the /etc/fstab entry and 
the drive shows up in my file browser, just unmountable.  Now it 
should all drop into place properly.  Owned by root is fine.  It's 
going to be exposed over the LAN via samba when I'm done. Thanks very 
much.
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