Kubuntu 10.04, i386, new install. Can't access EXT4 partition on same HDD.
Kubuntu 10.04, i386, new install. Can't access EXT4 partition on same HDD. Celeron, desktop.
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I rarely use the console. So, I am still very dumb when using it!
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Kubuntu 10.4 should out of the box support ext4. If you want to list the partitions on your computer use
Code:
fdisk -l Code:
df -h Code:
mount Code:
mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/tmp Markus |
What's on the ext4 partition? Data? Another operating system? How have you tried to access it? Do you have a mount point for it? Is it mounted? I don't have Kubuntu so I don't know where you access the terminal, probably the Menu icon?? get your partition information using this command as root (sudo): sudo fdisk -l (lower case letter L in the command). Also, take a look at the /etc/fstab file to see what you have. If you don't understand it, post it here.
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Thank you.
Before I follow your instructions, I want to know if there is a way to have my partitions automatically mount upon every boot, without a prompt for password. |
surely, if you configure it in the /etc/fstab file.
Markus |
ok more on the auto in a moment. fdisk coming next:
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neally@honeybear:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for neally: Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x8b37325c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 6079 48827392 83 Linux /dev/sda2 6079 7903 14648320 83 Linux /dev/sda3 7903 8025 976896 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 8025 30402 179743744 83 Linux |
neally@honeybear:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 46G 44G 128M 100% / none 245M 308K 245M 1% /dev none 249M 92K 249M 1% /dev/shm none 249M 80K 249M 1% /var/run none 249M 0 249M 0% /var/lock none 249M 0 249M 0% /lib/init/rw /dev/sda4 169G 188M 160G 1% /media/disk I am trying to be able to read/write files in sda4 |
neally@honeybear:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/tmp
mount: mount point /mnt/tmp does not exist |
Well, this tells you, that /dev/sda2 is not yet mounted.
And since /dev/sda4 is mounted to /media/disk, there is no problem for your Kubuntu to access the filesystem. Markus Edit: as I wrote "if you have a directory /mnt/tmp" if not, create one. But you don't need it since the partition is already mounted. |
I suppose it says sda4 is mounted?
But in Kubuntu's GUI file manager, Dolphin, It won't let me so much as write new folder. I can not see any files on it. |
Ok? All I know is I can't use sda4. Dolphin won't let me.
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I don't remember these problems on my last computer, with Kubuntu 9.10.
How can I use my filesystem? |
Well, you can write to it only as root. And if you open dolphin as a normal user, you don't have root-permissions.
There are two ways: write to the partition as root on the commandline, or create folders as root and change the owner of the folders to the normal user which then will have write-permissions within the folders Markus |
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