Partitions

[mibtech]

This might be a dumb question but,

I am running ubuntu 11.10

I created a large partition as a second drive but I have to dig under file system to access it and it won't let me make a link to it I want it to show up as a device like its a hard disk of its own. is this possible?

[heshoots67]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/System
Requirements (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements)

Try this if it works.

[ajgreeny]

I don't quite understand exactly what you mean, but it sounds as if you have a partition separate from your ubuntu install that you wish to use as a data drive.

How is it formatted, ie what filesystem, fat32, ntfs, ext#?
Where is it mounted; it is probably in /media, but if not where, or do you have to mount it manually with a command?

Please run the commands
sudo fdisk -l
sudo blkid
cat /etc/fstab one by one and copy the output of each back here.