Ubuntu 8.10 Partitions

[Salorian]

Hello all, I have given up gaming...and I have no reason what so ever to continue to use Vista, so I am making a full Linux switch.

Here is my dilemma...

I have 2 250 GB Hard Drives, that I would like to use...

I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit in the following way.

/boot 5GB sda1 ext3
/swap 16gb sda5
/root the rest of my HD sda6 ext3

/home 250gb sdb1 ext3

Install went, fine and I am currently updating and playing with the package manager. However, I cannot access the other HD on /home. I cannot make a new folder, or even add any files to it.

My main goal is to install the OS and its needs on 1 HD, and use the rest for storage, and then use my other HD as storage as well.

How can this be achieved?

Thanks!

[logos34]

post your

cat /etc/fstab

and

sudo fdisk -l

[Salorian]

Small edit...I was wrong. I can access my /home, but I cannot access the root folder to use it as storage.

tom@tom-desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda6
UUID=d01bdc38-40f0-47ef-8705-387ccb767180 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=8ad0737d-4c32-4f2b-931c-061191bb9db6 /boot ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=0fe2ebd1-af84-40ec-84cc-4448a830dbc8 /home ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda5
UUID=5896343d-f75b-447c-9c21-9b34dafafd04 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0


tom@tom-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdcae74af

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 608 4883728+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 609 30401 239312272+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 609 2565 15719571 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 2566 30401 223592638+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2e7bbeda

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 30401 244196001 83 Linux

[albinootje]

Small edit...I was wrong. I can access my /home, but I cannot access the root folder to use it as storage.

Can you explain this a bit more ?
/ is the root of the Linux filesystem tree, there's also /root which is the home of root, the sysadmin.

Are you saying you want a directory in / (but not in /home) to save data ?
You can do this :


sudo mkdir /data
sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /data

Then your default user should be able to read/write in /data

[Salorian]

Thanks for the replies!

When I installed, after my swap and /boot...I just used all the space left and put it under / (which I think means root)

So, I go into Places > Computer > Filesystem > root, its empty with 194.4GB free.

I basically want another place to store data aside from the /home.

I used the terminal commands you suggested, and I now have a folder called data with 194.4GB free, yet root says the same.

[albinootje]

Thanks for the replies!

When I installed, after my swap and /boot...I just used all the space left and put it under / (which I think means root)

That is your / partition, which you can also call root partition I assume.


So, I go into Places > Computer > Filesystem > root, its empty with 194.4GB free.

I basically want another place to store data aside from the /home.

I used the terminal commands you suggested, and I now have a folder called data with 194.4GB free, yet root says the same.

/data is part of the / partition. Try copying something to /data and see the difference.

[Salorian]

Okay....so the data folder we made is basically an extension of the root folder now, am I correct in saying that? So, I can just throw my junk in there, and use it as planned?

Also, is there anything illogical about my partitioning set up?

[albinootje]

And if you find it easier to have a link to /data on your desktop, try the following :

1) Open a terminal
2) Type in :


cd ~/Desktop ; ln -s /data

and press <enter>
Now you should have a link to /data on your desktop.

[albinootje]

Okay....so the data folder we made is basically an extension of the root folder now, am I correct in saying that? So, I can just throw my junk in there, and use it as planned?

Yes, although it's better to talk about root partition (slash partition) because the root folder would be /root which is just the home folder of "root", the system administrator (you) of your machine.


Also, is there anything illogical about my partitioning set up?
Looks excellent to me, it's cool and practical to have a separate /home partition.

[Salorian]

Thanks for all of your help, you were very helpful and I think I finally understand it! (it only took 5 installs)

Btw, Ultimate Boot CD is the best thing ever. =P

[albinootje]

Thanks for all of your help, you were very helpful and I think I finally understand it! (it only took 5 installs)

Btw, Ultimate Boot CD is the best thing ever. =P

:)

Recommended reading :
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/

[Salorian]

So, I re-did things a bit, lol.

Kept everything the same except...10gb for / and put home on my primary partition, then just formated the other HD with home/data and everything is great!

[albinootje]

So, I re-did things a bit, lol.

You like reinstalling a lot ? :p


Kept everything the same except...10gb for / and put home on my primary partition, then just formated the other HD with home/data and everything is great!
Excellent!