Second hard drive not recognised in Mandriva.

DavidNW

DavidNW

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Hi, everyone.

Well, after too many issues with XP, I finally decided to give up using it the other day. Now, I have installed Mandriva 2006 on my first hard drive (40 GB) and everything is working great! My second hard drive (80 GB) shows up in Mandriva's equivilent of XP's 'Disk Management'.

I want to use this second drive for storing data in Mandriva. I have formatted it in the 'ext 3' filing system type and mounted it, but it will not show up as a usable drive anywhere on the KDE desktop. Does anyone know how I can sort this out?

Many thanks,

David.
 
Where did you mount it ?

Providing your fstab is set correctly, It should show up in Konquerer, at leats under System -> Storage Media.

You can create a shortcut to the device on your desktop.
 
sabashuali said:
Where did you mount it ?

Providing your fstab is set correctly, It should show up in Konquerer, at leats under System -> Storage Media.

You can create a shortcut to the device on your desktop.
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I mounted it in '/var' I don't know if this is correct. No, it does not show up in Konquerer. I'm sure it's something simple, but it's got me stumped at the moment.
 
although it is perfectly viable to mount a partition anywhere, it's kind of "good practice" to mount partitions in the /mnt directory

here's my /mnt directory



could you please post your fstab
 
Cheers, Dave.

Yeah, tried getting the drive to show up in Konqueror, but ended up screwing up the mandriva installation - I've just had to reinstall - arrrrrgh!

Here's a screenshot of the hard drive - perhaps you could tell me if anything is wrong with way I have mounted it as it it still does not show up in Konqueror?

Cheers,

David.
 
right running mandy
i think you need to "format" and "mount" the partition

then MCC will look something like this


BTW: don't forget to save changes
 
Thanks, but it's formatted and mounted (just checked). Can't make out your screenshot, btw, the image is far too small to read.

I think this one will take a bit of figuring out although you might have thought accessing a second HD should be simple.
 
Right, it's definately mounted now - see screenshot - but it's still not showing up in Konqueror. I think this one is going to run and run!

Cheers,

David.
 
open konqueror (not as root) and navigate to /mnt then on menu click <View> <View Mode> and select tree mode, and post screenshot also post a screenshot of the same location but as root
 
Right, this is getting even weirder now. Please see this screenshot. The disk /dev/hdb1 is showing up in 'DiskFree', but not in 'Konqueror' (as you can see) so I can't access it. I just don't understand this one!

The hard disk you can see in 'Konqueror' is my external drive - not the second hard disk (/dev/hdb1) that I have referred to above.
 
as you can see on the attachment (imageshack down)
  • the owner of windows is root
  • access to windows is only allowed to group, root

[ot]i've just figured it out, look here[/ot]

BTW: you can also alter the permissions by: <Right Click> <Properties> <Permissions tab>
 
Thanks, but no joy. The permissions can't be changed under Properties as the options are greyed out. I'm really stumped on this one, so will have to call it a day for now. I can't believe that something so seemingly simple is proving to be this difficult.


Cheers,

Dave.
 
DavidNW said:
Right, this is getting even weirder now. Please see this screenshot. The disk /dev/hdb1 is showing up in 'DiskFree', but not in 'Konqueror' (as you can see) so I can't access it. I just don't understand this one!

The hard disk you can see in 'Konqueror' is my external drive - not the second hard disk (/dev/hdb1) that I have referred to above.
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You are looking at /dev in konq. You just need to point it at /mnt/windows
 
DavidNW said:
Thanks, but no joy. The permissions can't be changed under Properties as the options are greyed out. I'm really stumped on this one, so will have to call it a day for now. I can't believe that something so seemingly simple is proving to be this difficult.


Cheers,

Dave.
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You cannot change root permissions as a normal user. If you use superuser file manager (I'm not sure what it is called) or use kdesu to launch konq as root and then change permissions.

Permissions are very picky and only root can do big changes like what you want to do with the entire mount point.
 
kenji means type
Code: 
kdesu konqueror
the two common ways of running something as root
  • kdesu <command> - graphical programs
  • sudo <command> - konsole programs

Edit: then navigate to /mnt then right click and change permissions
 
donkey42 said:
kenji means type
Code: 
kdesu konqueror
the two common ways of running something as root
  • kdesu <command> - graphical programs
  • sudo <command> - konsole programs
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Thanks for clarifying.

Also you may run things as root from the 'run' box. Alt+F2 (or on K menu) opens the 'run command' and if you expand options, there is an option to "run as a different user". Just run as 'root' and type password. That is usually what I do.
 
Things are becoming a little clearer re: 'Permissions'. However, I'm starting to think that I'm choosing to mount the drive in the wrong place in the first instance.

I you look at the attached screenshot you will see where my DVD, CD, & external drives are - this is where I want my second hard drive to go.

When I go into Mandriva's 'disk management' and get the option to select a 'mount point', the pull down menu gives a list of possible options (but you can type in your own). I feel I should type in '/ (device)' as seen in the screenshot.

I've now screwed up 2 installations of Mandriva by trying to mount this second drive (probably in the wrong place).

I don't really know what I'm doing - but surely, formatting a second hard drive so that you can use it to store data on in a computer has got to be the simplest of things to achieve - but it isn't proving to be.

Thanks for your help, guys. I'll just call it a day on this one.
 
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