[ALUG] Help me to help someone!

[(Ted Harding)]

Thanks, Mark -- interesting that you;ve had the same experience.
The only issue (see end of you first para) is that he can read
from it, but not write to it.

On 05-Jul-07 08:37:59, Mark Reid wrote:
> Dear Ted
> 
> This is an interesting one.  As you correctly point out, Linux has
> not recognised hdb when it was installed for whatever reason that
> may have been. I must say that I had exactly the same problem when
> I first used Ubuntu a year ago. He can access it through Nautilus
> which suggests that even though it is not registered on startup,
> it's recognised as being there much in the way that removable
> drive l would be when it's plugged in. That's why he can mount it
> using the mount command in Nautilus  and then read and write to it.  
> 
> What should solve the problem is if he adds the hdb to the fstab after 
> he has backed the old one up, which is what I did and what I think is 
> what you suggested and he hasn't done yet.

The issue there being the UID identification, rather then the
traditional "/dev/hdb*". Wayne made a suggestion for finding out
what the UID code ought to be.

Any further comments from anyone would be most welcome!

> 
> An easier way for a beginner to do this is to open a root terminal  
> through the menu, clicking on Accessories (or System Tools ) > Root 
> Terminal and entering the command gedit which will get him to the gui 
> based editor as root user.   I've only recently upgraded to Edgy myself
> and what's new in the way Ubuntu now does fstab entries is putting in a
> UUID value which it didn't in pervious distros.    In entering values 
> for hdb manually, I'm not sure whether absence of a UUID would make any
> difference to the operation of fstab.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mark
> 
> (Ted Harding) wrote:
>> 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#271
>> 30
>>
>> and followed up at
>>
>> http://forum.zensupport.co.uk/27097/27151/permalink/ShowThread.aspx#271
>> 51
>>
>> 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#272
>> 19
>>
>> 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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