[SOLVED] Really confused about accessing a new partition...
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Really confused about accessing a new partition...
Hello:
I have been trying to place my DropBox folder on it's own, separate partition, /dev/sda5.
Using KDE Partition Manager, I see that sda5 is mounted at: /media/disk and is 19.72 Gib with 171.94 MiB used. (my DropBox folder is about 2 GiB in size)
This has got to mean that my DropBox folder is not there, right?
Previously, I altered my fstab to include this:
Code:
/dev/sd5 /mnt/drpbox ext4 noatime,user_xattr 1 2
I did this because I had done:
Code:
mkdir /mnt/drpbox
thinking that, by doing so, would put the DropBox folder on sda5 when using the DropBox installed and selecting '/mnt/drpbox' as the location for my DropBox folder, which is what I did.
I don't think that this correct. I think that my DropBox folder is either still in sda3 (/home) of sda1 (/).
If anyone can help me sort this out, I would really appreciate it.
I have removed DropBox using sbopkg.
I have searched for 'dropbox' or '.dropbox' and can find no files or folders - DropBox, I assume, is entirely gone and the fstab is back to its original state.
I have run lilo and rebooted.
add'l info: Gparted shows sda5 as 'not mounted'.
Can you tell me how to properly set up my system so that I will be able to select sda5 as a working location for the 'DropBox' folder?
Thanks for any help with this,
Last edited by Robert.Thompson; 03-22-2011 at 12:59 PM.
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