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At a very early stage in the installation of the Ubuntu8.04 desktop I encountered some perplexing failures in the mount command and in my attempted alteration of the fstab file. Commands that had worked in Ubuntu's earlier LTS desktop failed both on the command line and when the file itself was executed. Moreover, with respect to the latter the results were similarly perplexing whether the file was executed during bootup or on the command line with the "a" option. Succinctly the problem is, I have not been successful mounting the external directories [1.] of the 6.06 desktop while on 8.04. Nonetheless, use of essentially the same commands work where I can see all the directories of 8.04 while running the 6.06 desktop. Moreover, with root level privileges on 6.06, I can copy, remove or alter files and sync in either direction. Those options are unavailable to me on 8.04.

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