finding and importing files on other drives/partitions

[lekifsirk]

Let me start by saying that I would not have started a new post if I had any idea what exactly I was searching for. Sad but true. Here is the situation...
I have a computer with Ubuntu 9.10 on it and it is fabulous. I have a hard drive in this computer with several partitions and installations of ubuntu as well as a partition with ******* xp. I also have a second hard drive in there with who knows what os installed. Now, my problem. I don't know how to find and transfer files, photos, music, etc to my newest partition/installation of U9.10. I'd like to harvest all the files I need and then just format the extra space and merge it into my current system.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Happy Holidays everyone!

[mikewhatever]

Don't quite understand the problem, can you not copy/paste files from one drive to another, or do you have a hard time finding the files? Please explain yourself.

[lekifsirk]

It could be that I'm not sure even where to look for the files. I apologize for my lack of knowledge. It could be very simple, but I don't know where to look. Although, when I look in the 'Places' menu I only see the current partition that has U9.10. Is there somewhere else I should be looking?
Thanks for your reply.

[oldfred]

If you look in places, computer the left pane should show you all the other partitions that Ubuntu sees and it should see just about everything. It will not mount NTFS partitions that were not shut down normally or require a checkdisk in windows on reboot.

After you copy data over some info on planning partitions:
With add'l info on manually partitioning
http://guvnr.com/pc/ubuntu-partition-planning/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...gANewHardDrive
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ho...sAndPartitions
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...2Fdata+partiti

[Mahngiel]

Let me start by saying that I would not have started a new post if I had any idea what exactly I was searching for. Sad but true. Here is the situation...
I have a computer with Ubuntu 9.10 on it and it is fabulous. I have a hard drive in this computer with several partitions and installations of ubuntu as well as a partition with ******* xp. I also have a second hard drive in there with who knows what os installed. Now, my problem. I don't know how to find and transfer files, photos, music, etc to my newest partition/installation of U9.10. I'd like to harvest all the files I need and then just format the extra space and merge it into my current system.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Happy Holidays everyone!

You're best bet is to create a partition (if you have the available space) in Fat32 format. this allows all OS's to read the partition. Then you can individually move all your stuff from other OS's there and have universal access.

This will allow you to use less space for each of your OS's, and concentrate all your media files in one place.

[mikewhatever]

It could be that I'm not sure even where to look for the files. I apologize for my lack of knowledge. It could be very simple, but I don't know where to look. Although, when I look in the 'Places' menu I only see the current partition that has U9.10. Is there somewhere else I should be looking?
Thanks for your reply.

Hey, the lack of knowledge isn't a crime, on the contrary, it's a perfectly normal state. Anyway, thanks for explaining.
Theoretically, the links to all other partitions should have been in the Places menu. Let's verify what partitions you have as seen by Ubuntu. Can you open Applications-Accessories->Terminal and post the output of the following commands:

df -h

sudo fdisk -l

[lekifsirk]

kris@kris-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb6 109G 3.7G 100G 4% /
udev 1.9G 304K 1.9G 1% /dev
none 1.9G 216K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
none 1.9G 128K 1.9G 1% /var/run
none 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /var/lock
none 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /lib/init/rw
kris@kris-desktop:~$
kris@kris-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for kris:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x61926192

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda2 * 59421 60801 11092882+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 59421 60801 11092851 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00078f93

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 44749 359446311 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 44750 60801 128937690 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 59767 60801 8313606 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 44750 59150 115675969+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 59151 59766 4947988+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

[lekifsirk]

Thank you all for trying to help me. I hope the info in the previous post is helpful.

[lekifsirk]

Mahngiel
I have another external hard drive and I could format it to Fat32. Then would I install Ubuntu on it and look for files to transfer over?

[iMisspell]

Mahngiel
I have another external hard drive and I could format it to Fat32. Then would I install Ubuntu on it and look for files to transfer over?

I do not think that is what Mahngiel ment, just the opposite actual.

It is commen practice for people to do the following.

Install a o/s (or many operating systems) to a computer (like you have).
OR
Have many computers hooked up to a home network.

Have one computer OR one harddrive (exturnal usb, what ever (like you have)) and store all there files on that one computer OR one hardrive.

By doing this it make it easyer to access the pics, music, movies, document files when they are on different home computer or turn on there main computer and start it up with a different o/s (like your doing).

So, commen pratice would be to format your exturnal hardrive, find your files and move them to that exturnal drive so no matter what o/s you are using, the files will always be in the same place, your exturnal harddrive.

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