i have a problem ned som help

[Bueal]

i am a noob at Linux...
and i have to hardrives one Linux is on, and the other drive nothing, how can i mount it so i can use it for stuff like movies and mp3

[Teunis]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

Go K-menu, then to Add/Remove programs and in the Systems section you will find Kwikdisk and KDiskFree.
These two applications help you to manage your disks and partitions.

[Bueal]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

only one of my hardrives showed up on that program,
so i did a sudo fdisk -i

sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4784 38427448+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4785 4865 650632+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4785 4865 650601 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 4901 39367251 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 4902 4982 650632+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 4902 4982 650601 82 Linux swap / Solaris


Disk /dev/sda is the wan i wanna use to

[marshallbanana]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

Kmenu>system settings>advanced>disk & filesystems
go into admin mode, click on the partition/drive you wish, click new, specify the mount point (eg. /media/harddrive/) and then just tick what you want like mount on startup.
Close out of that and restart.
Run command 'kdesu konqueror', navigate to drive and right-click on it, go into properites, permissions tab, change it so that your user can read/write. Now close it all up.
Done

It can also be done by editing fstab or using some other apps but that way works for me, is gui based, and doesn't require you to install anything.

Note: you may first wish to install qtparted using the package manager so that you can reformat the drive into a suitable filesystem such as ext3 or fat32 (qtparted was the app that did your partioning when you were using the live cd to install kubuntu).

[Bueal]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

tnx man it worked

[brasssmunkye]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

ok, with the solution which runs throught the advanced options etc..
i cant seem to be able to change permissions so that i can acess the files...
please give exact instructions in doing so

[marshallbanana]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

Run command 'kdesu konqueror'

That command will launch konqueror with admin rights which should solve the permissions issue (the shortcut for run command is alt-f2, or select the entry from the kmenu).

[brasssmunkye]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

Run command 'kdesu konqueror'

That command will launch konqueror with admin rights which should solve the permissions issue (the shortcut for run command is alt-f2, or select the entry from the kmenu).

do you know how to CHANGE the permissions tho?
i have had no luck in doing so, ALL I WANT TO DO IS PLAY MY FRIGGIN MP3s!!!!
etc.
ok, thanks

[SheeEttin]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

Run command 'kdesu konqueror', navigate to drive and right-click on it, go into properites, permissions tab, change it so that your user can read/write. Now close it all up.
Done

[npaisnel]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

How do you navigate to a particular drive in konqueror? I can see a folder below the root :

/dev/disk/

which has three subfolders, by-id, by-uuid, by-path

Each of these have a selection of icons within them, with the physical device names, and partitions on them.

If you click on them, you cant open them as it asks for a program to open them with. Is it possible to open them and explorer thru them as you would in Windows?, or from here can you only change permissions of the link?

[Detonate]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

It has to be mounted, then you can access it like any other directory. See marshallbanana's post above for the easiest way to mount your drive.

[npaisnel]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

OK, no problem, I was just wondering if this was a way to explore the disk without having to mount it.

Just seems that when ever I mount a new device, be it HDD USB device or whatever, something else seems to get messed up

[SheeEttin]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

It's impossible to view a drive without mounting it. It's analogous to trying to read a book without opening it.

[Capt.Marion]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

Did all of this and got:
"Called: mount /dev/sda
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified"

EDIT: It is NTFS, so should I reformat it to FAT32?

[Teunis]

Re: i have a problem ned som help

Read only NTFS should be build in from the start, when you want to read and write on NTFS you should install the ntfs-3g and ntfs-config packages.
No need to reformat to FAT32.