I dunno dude.
I have done all this and I still can't use the partition

EDIT:
I have not performed all that root folder magic. How?

Create folders as root.....?
ok?

see, i am dumb with console

mh, what I can see is that you don't have a partition for /home, maybe you expected something different.

Which files do you want to write to the /dev/sda4 partition? as an example, if you want to have a folder "backup" and it should be writeable for the user bhaktaafterwards the user bhakta will be able to write into the folder.

Note that normally this is not necessary (and it's dangerous) since a user must never write to folders outside his/her homedirectory!!!

Markus

Before we go further, here's what I expected:

I expect 10.04 to behave like the previous releases, where I boot into my Kubuntu, Then I open my file manager, Dolphin, and on the left bar "Places" is a list of all the partitions, numerous, that were present on the HDD, and all were accessible without any root folder voodoo, passwords, console, etc

I keep my OS partition small, and keep all my media files on another partition for safety. I have never had this problem before. All I want is to single-click on [whatever drive] in my GUI and read/write it.

Which files to write to sda4? I have 160GB of documentaries to put there. I need this simplified.

Hello? Still stuck here

Since you know how to access the terminal, you need to first determine what the permissions are for sda which your df output showed as being mounted on /media/disk. Open the terminal and type:

then type:

If you don't understand the output, post it here.
If you want /media/disk mounted on boot, you need an entry in the /etc/fstab file. Post that by going into the terminal and typing:

If the directories/files in /media/disk are owned by root, you can use the command posted above by markush, the chown command.

Thank you.

neally@honeybear:~$ sudo ls -l /media/
[sudo] password for neally:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-05-01 20:15 disk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2011-05-01 20:16 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-05-01 20:16 floppy0

then:

neally@honeybear:~$ ls -l /media/disk/
total 16
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2011-05-01 20:15 lost+found

and:

neally@honeybear:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=064fe207-0c8d-4614-a549-e68f1c0fd0d2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

Is this a cruel joke?
All I need is to be able to write files into my /dev/sda4 ext4 partition, from my /dev/sda1 Kubuntu. Why am I prevented from that?
Why does it seem like I am intentionally left hanging here. I know this is easy for the veterans.

SOLVED, Thanks to EricTRA!

Newbies, go to this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...itions-881489/