trying to mount 2nd HD Help !!!!

[renihanc]

need help setting up another HD, have it formatted in ext3. Can't mount it because I don't have root access.

any help would be appreciated

[merlinus]

You might try


gksu nautilusand navigate to the partition and mount it. But if you want this to be permanent, you will have to add an entry for it in /etc/fstab.

Post results of:


sudo fdisk -lafter mounting the partition.

[renihanc]

Here you go, hope this helps. sda is working fine, I had Unbuntu on sdb and formatted it because I was using it as a storage drive. Tried to mount it, but must have sone something wrong because now it won't


Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x79627962

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 16708 134206978+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 16709 30401 109989022+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 16709 29839 105474726 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 29840 30401 4514233+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000001

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 38913 312568641 83 Linux




I did

sudo mkdir /media/mine now says file exits this is mount point right ?


chris@chris-desktop:~$ sudo mkdir /media/mine
mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/mine': File exists
chris@chris-desktop:~$ sudo mount /media/mine
mount: can't find /media/mine in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab


do I make entry in fstab ? how do I do that ?


thanks for any help you can give


Chris