Installed finally but......

[leviathan]

Ok, I finally got Kubuntu installed and man is it ever gratifying. Anyway, I have a laptop with two hard drives and I know Kubuntu saw both of them when installing, but how can I get Kubuntu to recognize it from the file manager?. Is there a way to format it so kubuntu can see it then mount it?. I sure would hate to have a 250 gig hard drive go to waste, I gots lots of pics and music to add!.


Thanks so much,
Leviathan

[Snowhog]

Re: Installed finally but......

Welcome. Open a console and type the following commands and copy/paste the output into your reply:

blkid

cat /etc/fstab

With this information we can assist you in adding the entry to fstab so that the HD is available when you have booted into Kubuntu.

[leviathan]

Re: Installed finally but......

Ok, heres what I got from what you told me to type in

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ blkid
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop2: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop3: LABEL="F10-PR-x86_64-Li" UUID="fa4c6780-6a10-4df4-aa4b-8c5f0069f63d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda1: UUID="5c6ed556-3071-4cc8-93fc-4cd8128fd594" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: UUID="276e740a-33b6-4d17-8383-e9acc7d4593d" TYPE="swap"
/dev/dm-0: LABEL="F10-PR-x86_64-Li" UUID="fa4c6780-6a10-4df4-aa4b-8c5f0069f63d"TYPE="ext3"
/dev/dm-1: LABEL="F10-PR-x86_64-Li" UUID="fa4c6780-6a10-4df4-aa4b-8c5f0069f63d"SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="B660DEEB60DEB0FB" LABEL="BEHEMOTH" TYPE="ntfs"
[liveuser@localhost ~]$

/dev/root / ext3 defaults,noatime 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0

[leviathan]

Re: Installed finally but......

I forgot to add, BEHEMOTH is my external Hard drive. Shouldnt my second drive be something like sdb, with my primary drive being sda?.

[Snowhog]

Re: Installed finally but......

First, verify that you have the ntfs-3g package installed. If it isn't, install it.
Second, open a console and type:

sudo mkdir /media/BEHEMOTH

(this will create a mount point for your drive)

Edit the /etc/fstab file (as root) and add the following line to the end of the file:

UUID=B660DEEB60DEB0FB /media/BEHEMOTH ntfs-3g defaults,relatime 0 2

Save and close.

Open a console and type:

sudo mount /media/BEHEMOTH

If you did all correctly (no typos), the drive will be accessible to you "read/write"