[SOLVED] can't "see" my fat32 partition

[socngill]

I have just done a clean install of Kubuntu 8.10 and my fat32 partition is not viewable. When I go into root-media it isn't there. It does list my NTFS XP partition, but not the fat32 one which holds all my music, pictures, documents etc.

Any idea how I can get Linux to recognise it, and also how to auto mount it on start up?

Thanks.

Oh, I have checked GParted and it is there, but it appears to be on the same partition as the SWAP file. Could this be causing the problem?

[Michael.Godawski]

Can you please post the result of:

df -h

and

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

[socngill]

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 25G 2.1G 22G 9% /
tmpfs 632M 0 632M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 632M 100K 632M 1% /var/run
varlock 632M 0 632M 0% /var/lock
udev 632M 2.8M 629M 1% /dev
tmpfs 632M 0 632M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 632M 2.0M 630M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
/dev/sda5 60G 10G 50G 17% /dos
/dev/sda1 30G 26G 3.5G 89% /media/disk

I have highlighted the drive in question.

and:

neil@Kubuntu:~$ gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

(gksudo:5528): Gtk-WARNING **: libbonoboui-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gksudo:5528): Gtk-WARNING **: libbonoboui-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Which ven to me doesn't look good!!

[marshall.robert]

Can you please post the result of:

df -h

and

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

on a kde system you use kate instead of gedit i think

[drs305]

For kubuntu:

kdesudo kate /etc/fstab

[Michael.Godawski]

Can you navigate in Nautilus, I mean just look for the fstab file manually if it is there at all?
Perhaps the application gedit caused the problem.

edit:
thx .drs305

[socngill]

neil@Kubuntu:~$ kdesu kate /etc/fstab
bash: kdesu: command not found

Something would appear to be not quite right....? I did "sudo" in front as well with the same result.

[diablo75]

That command looks right. Try it again in a fresh terminal window...

[socngill]

That command looks right. Try it again in a fresh terminal window...

Went one better and restarted, but still has the same problem. Found out that Kwrite was not installed (I thought it would be automatically installed?). So have installed it and still get the same error message:

kdesu kate /etc/fstab

[diablo75]

What happens if you just type "kate" and nothing else?