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[Douglas Pollard]

On 06/09/2011 11:11 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Douglas Pollard wrote:
>> Roy,Your post says if sdc does not show up in fdisk do the following.
>> It does show up, then what??
>>
>> I had been typing Getit instead of gedit so kept getting no such
>> command.  Finally realised it.:-[     I don't understand gedit or
>> fstab so I need to do some reading this morning to understand what
>> you are having me do.
> Please don't change your /etc/fstab. It might be difficult to recover
> from mistakes. And it isn't necessary to put the configuration in your
> fstab if you simply want to mount a partition. If you want to read
> something about fstab, try this page:
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab>.
>
> I think the real problem is, that people try to give you instructions
> for the command line which unfortunately don't exactly fit your
> configuration and as you are not familiar with these CLI instructions
> you can't easily adapt them to your your current situation. I would
> suggest you try to find a Windows machine and do a file system check of
> your 2TB partition on that machine. The partiton you checked
> successfully yesterday was a 250GB partition.
>
> The problem with your Ubuntu system is that it is changing all the time.
> If I understand your previous posts correctly, once your 2TB partition
> was at /dev/sdc1 then it was at /dev/sde1 and who knows where it is now.
>
> If you can't find a Windows machine, you could of course try to do the
> file system check with Linux, like Jordon suggested. But to get CLI
> instructions which work with copy&paste, you should have a system which
> has a constant configuration until the problem is solved. That means you
> should not plug / unplug any USB disks and keep the machine running.
> Then execute the command
>
> sudo fdisk -l
>
> and post the output here. Then we know where that 2TB disk is today.
>
>> Understanding is likely as important as
>> getting the disk working.  The first question I have for now is that
>> my 2t drive does not show up in fstab at all. The two internal
>> drives do.
> That's how it should be. The USB disks don't need to be in your fstab
> because they are mounted when you plug them in.
>
>
> Nils
>
>    
I will be leaving in about an hour and won't be back until late Monday 
so my computer problems will have to wait until then. After a few days 
of sailing maybe I'll be able to work on this problem.
     Thanks for the advice and I will pick up on this when I get back.  
At the meoment I am sick of this computer:-)                             
     Thanks everyone for the help.      Doug