No Mount

[FranklinSt]

I have 2 HD (hda & hdb. On hda I have a Kubuntu partition and a Mandriva partition. On hdb I have tons of data. While running Kubuntu, I cannot access either the Mandriva partition or hdb. The system "sees" them but when I try to access, I get an error message indicating they are not mounted and cannot be mounted since they aren't in fstab or mtab.

HELP??

[sky]

Re: No Mount

Hi,

So you need to put them in /etc/fstab
Open it like this :
kdesu kate /etc/fstab

Then add lines corresponding to these drives...

[Worzel]

Re: No Mount

/dev/hdb2 /mnt ext3 user,noauto 0 0

Add a line like above to fstab but NB..
My hard disc has two partitions and this is to load the 2nd one, hence hdb2.
Add/amend as appropriate for each disc/partition.

It is mounting to /mnt, you may want to set up a different mount point.
ext3 = change to whatever file system you use.

User = anyone can (u)mount the disc.
noauto = it's not mounted by default, only when you need it. Make it auto if you want it running all the time.
You can (u)mount from Konq from the Services panel
HTH
Jim

[FranklinSt]

Re: No Mount

Jim, thanks for your help....... made progress....... here's my fstab:

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdb1 /mnt ext2 user/auto 0 0
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0


When I try to mount hdb1, I get an error message saying onlu root can mount?

[dglock]

Re: No Mount

Jim, thanks for your help....... made progress....... here's my fstab:

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdb1 /mnt ext2 user/auto 0 0
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0


When I try to mount hdb1, I get an error message saying onlu root can mount?

That is because you have it set to auto, which means its to be mounted at boot, meaning by root. set it to noauto then if its mounted now umount as root and then mount as regular user.

don

[FranklinSt]

Re: No Mount

Thanks, still no mount. Now I'm a newbie but it seems like this should be easier. I'm struggling with this. Here's my current fstab:

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdb1 /home auto user/rw/noauto 1 2
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt auto user/rw/noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

Please help.

[sky]

Re: No Mount

Hi,

I'm not sure, but I guess that it's because you're putting / instead of ,
Can you try with a fstab like this :
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdb1 /home auto user,rw,noauto 1 2
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt auto user,rw,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

[kubicle]

Re: No Mount

As a side note, is there a reason why you have set '/home' not to automount ('noauto')?

If /home is not mounted at boottime, your user specific configuration files in /home/<USERNAME> cannot be read.

The 'defaults' options should work better with system directories (like /home)