[ALUG] Help me to help someone!

[(Ted Harding)]

Hi Folks,
There's a thread on the Zen Support Forum, Linux Division,
with title "Setting screen res in Ubuntu 7.04". The start
of the thread is at

http://forum.zensupport.co.uk/thread/27097.aspx

The topic has somewhat moved on from that, and the OP (Ken
Odlum)'s problem is now that, using Ubuntu, while he apparently
has two hard disks, one of which he can use normally, he can
only read from the other and not write to it. This problem
is first mentioned at

http://forum.zensupport.co.uk/27097/27130/permalink/ShowThread.aspx#27130

and followed up at

http://forum.zensupport.co.uk/27097/27151/permalink/ShowThread.aspx#27151

I ("eelman") intervened acouple of posts later, with suggestions
'cat /etc/fstab' etc. It seems he's dome this, and now

http://forum.zensupport.co.uk/27097/27219/permalink/ShowThread.aspx#27219

he says "If I go to Places Computer it shows the other hard drive
and I can mount it and read or copy from it OK" despite the fact
that it's not in /etc/fstab.

The only thing I can think of is that when he does that, whetever
Ubuntu does behind the scenes amounts to an explicit

  mount -t ... /dev/hdb* /...

command. But, not having any Ubuntu eperience, I simply don't know.

If anyone can make a useful suggestio I could pass on, or better
still is on the Zen Support Forum and can intervene directly, this
would be welcome. The guy is a relatively recent convert to Linux,
and I wouldn't like his faith to be compromised!

Best wishes to all,
Ted.

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Date: 04-Jul-07                                       Time: 23:01:47
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