i cant open/mount brand spanking new partitions!
hi
any help here would be better than a blank brain! my problem is i have created a new 'Photos' partition under ebian 4.0 using gparted. gparted returned no errors, but nautilus says unable to mount the selected volume libhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but dbuserror was not set. process 10243: applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_connection_close() docs. this is a bug in the application. error: device /dev/hda2 is not removable error: could not execute pmount as you can see, the device is on /dev/hda2, but i cannot work out for the life of me why i cant mount it. HEEELP! ps. if ive missed anything out (bar punctuation lol), please let me know james waples, 14 |
You created the partition, but did you create the file system on it?
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Yep a bare partition with no file system can not be mounted..
man mkfs.ext3 mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda2 |
umm... i dont think so. thanks so much for your help. i didnt think of that, so the saying 'you learn something new every day' really does work then!
thanks james |
i have just tried that to no avail. would it be because the partition has no mount point. gparted also reads it as ext3, so my question is: how do i change the mount point of the partition?
thanks james |
can you manually mount the partition ?
Open a shell and as root, try the following mkdir /media/photos mount /dev/hda2 /media/photos cd /media/photos mount Does mount show the drive as mounted now ? Can you create a file on the drive ? If that works then you can edit your /etc/fstab file to add a mount point that will be available automatically at boot time. If that Doesn't work ywould you post the output of the following commands here ? mount fdisk -l Then we can see what is mounted and what drives and partitions are available on your system. |
A partition without filesystem cannot be mounted - and if mounted mkfs would refuse to work.
You could try the -f switch to mkfs. gparted reads it as ext3 because before the space belonged to a partition with ext3 on it(?) It could be that you solve this by rebooting - not like the fix-all-solution for windows...but: the partition table (layout) has changed - it could be that the kernel has problems even seeing the new partition - and thus cannot work on it. After rebooting the creation of a filesystem there should be no problem. There could be a way without rebooting - but I don't know it. |
thanks very much.
i have tried the mkdir /media/photos mount /dev/hda2 /media/photos cd /media/photos mount solution and it seems to work, so ta muchly, people! |
so now if you wish for that to mount automatically at every boot, you need to add an entry in your /etc/fstab file.
If you wish for PHOTOS to mount in a different location, say for instance under your home directory, you need to create a folder for it to use as a mount point in your home directory, then alter your fstab so that partition mounts to that folder.. As your normal user.. mkdir ~/photos As root edit your /etc/fstab file cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak - Back up your fstab file before starting nano /etc/fstab - Edit the file using nano, pico, vi or whatever you feel comfortable with Add a line at the end of your /etc/fstab file like the following Code:
/dev/hda2 /home/username/photos ext3 defaults 0 0 |
yeah. i have done that already and everything is working fantastically. thanks for all the help lads. i feel like such an idiot, but i had no second clue, so thanks again.
james |
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