problem with chmod

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Tue, 4/7/09, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:

> From: Bret Busby <bret at busby.net>
> Subject: Re: problem with chmod
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 1:40 AM
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >>>> There.
> >>>>
> >>>> That is the question.
> >>>>
> >>>> What is the answer?
> >>>
> >>> <sigh> I thought he was pretty explicit
> - you
> >> haven't created the required
> >>> mount points, so it can't possibly mount
> anything
> >> there.
> >>> --
> >>> derek
> >>>
> >>
> >> <sigh> .....
> >>
> >> And, to do that, I do what?
> >>
> >> What explicit?
> >>
> >> <sigh> It is like trying to get blood out of
> a
> >> stone...
> >>
> > Perhaps, typing 'man mount' from the cli and
> reading it would be a start.
> >
> > Leonard Chatagnier
> > lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> >
> 
> "The file /etc/fstab (see fstab(5)), may contain lines
> describing what 
> devices are usually mounted where,
>         using which options. This file is used in three
> ways:
> 
>         (i) The command
>                mount -a [-t type] [-O optlist]
>         (usually  given  in  a bootscript) causes all file
> systems 
> mentioned in fstab (of the proper type and/or
>         having or not having the proper options) to be
> mounted as 
> indicated, except for those  whose  line  con
>         tains the noauto keyword."
> 
> Okay.
> 
> So the lines in fstab should automatically cause the
> partitions to be 
> mounted, at bootup.
> 
> 
> <sigh> ....
> 
> One day, ....
> 
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
As others have said, you still haven't created the mount points for what you want to do. And, I expect you still haven't read man mount which explicitely tell you how to do it. You do make it hard to help yourself.  But since Thorny has told you how to do it explicitly, I wont comment further.