11.04 Beta/LTS - Access to second partition denied

[Adrian0]

Hi All, I'm an Ubuntu user but unskilled; can't find my way through an issue with the new distro.

My laptop is a STAMP, 1.6GHz, P4, RAM 1GHz, onboard Intel sound/video etc. There were two partitions, C:\ drive and D:\ drive. I had Ubuntu 10.10 and no other O/S installed.

I installed 11.04 Beta from a Live CD Alternate last week and have since upgraded a couple of times to what must now be the LTS. Lots of good stuff and it's why I'm a committed user. I have two problems:

In the install, I kept the two, almost equal partitions (each about 36GB) as well as the Swap of about 3.3GB. The previous format had been Ext4 and NTFS; I now reformatted and made them both Ext4.

The C:\ has of course all the system and apps, with the basic folder structure \HOME, etc. In trying to set up certain programmes to 'Save to' the D:\ - or indeed just trying to copy/move anything into it, I get: - "Error ... Access denied. Could not write to ... etc. OR ... etc does not exist"!

I've checked under the 'System/Administration/Users & Groups/ Users Settings/Group Settings. For Root, I've entered myself - who should have anyway had Administrator privileges. Also rebooted, but still no change.

What must I do to get use of my D:\ drive? Grateful for advice.

Adriano

[Dutch70]

It sounds like you need to enable the permissions on that partition using chmod & chown commands. I can't remember the exact commands, but they shouldn't be hard to find with a google search now that you know what you're looking for.

Your more than welcome to wait for a better answer. I'm just a little too tired right now & on my way to bed.

Regards

[Adrian0]

Dear Dutch,

I've had a quick look around on Google and decided I need to await something more from you! There are quite a few references to chmod & chown commands, but the contexts are beyond my limited knowledge and time to put that right!

Hope you can give me explicit action that I can employ. (Going back and re-installing may be an option - but it may just repeat!)

Very grateful again for your (or others') help on this.

Regards,
Adriano




It sounds like you need to enable the permissions on that partition using chmod & chown commands. I can't remember the exact commands, but they shouldn't be hard to find with a google search now that you know what you're looking for.

Your more than welcome to wait for a better answer. I'm just a little too tired right now & on my way to bed.

Regards

[Dutch70]

This is what I used. It's toward the bottom, but you should read it very well.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux)

[Adrian0]

This is what I used. It's toward the bottom, but you should read it very well.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux)


Dear Dutch, - I was a bit delayed but finally got to http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux, which appeared to be quite readable. (Btw, where the Guide sets up a new partition with mount point '/storage', my mount point is already called '/data').

However, I've come unstuck at the end - see my screenshot, where it says 'sudo: must be set uid root'.
Also when I re-open the Terminal with a new window, it says the same thing.

Further, both the C:\ and the D:\ have disappeared from the tree in my Dolphin file manager, leaving just the HOME/ directory, as have eg the Switch User options on the menu.

On re-booting I get (with a Red hazard sign) "Could not update ICE Authority file /var/lib/gdm/.ICE Authority". Then, "There is a problem with the Configuration server (/usr/libgcon/2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with state 256). Then "Could not apply the Stored Configuration for Monitors (Failed to open file. var/lib/gdm/config/monitors xml: access denied)"

I suspect something simple is behind this, but if resolving is too difficult, I'll just have to reistall from scratch. Hope you can guide accordingly!