i do this it mounts drive but wont let me do anything to it

leo5111 · Post by **leo5111** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:05 pm

Press alt+f2 and type
Code:

gedit /etc/mtab

this will open mtab in gedit ... the last line should be /dev/sdb5 /media/sdb5 ......

Press alt+f2 again and type
Code:

gksu gedit /etc/fstab

this will open fstab in gedit.

Copy the last line in mtab and paste it as a new last line in fstab, save fstab and exit. i do that it automounts but disk says permissions not determinable as user or root cant put anything on it

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:14 pm

leo5111,

Please post the line you put into /etc/fstab

Fred

leo5111 · Post by **leo5111** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:31 pm

/dev/sdb5 /media/New\040Volume fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:52 pm

leo5111,

What kind of partition is it? An ext3, NTFS, something else?

Fred

leo5111 · Post by **leo5111** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 8:46 pm

i tried with partitoner making a ext2 or ext3 same thing mounted fine couldnt access em

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:48 pm

leo5111,

Make your partition ext3 and try this: (substitute your user name for mine in all cases)

mkdir /home/fred/some_folder_name

gksu gedit /etc/fstab

This will open your fstab file for editing. Insert the following line at the end of the file. Save and close.

/dev/sdb5 /home/fred/some_folder_name ext3 auto,users,rw,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,nobh, 0 2

Reboot and see if that doesn't work better for you.

Fred

leo5111 · Post by **leo5111** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:51 pm

i will but i think something was phooey with my install because before even my automount adventures i didnt make much of it at time but if i select swap user to login as root i get a blank screen pressing switch user gives blank screen login screen doesnt appear

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:55 pm

leo5111,

Hummm... sounds suspicious. Are you sure your CD was good? It kinda sounds like a bad install.

Fred

leo5111 · Post by **leo5111** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:09 pm

i wonder if was a update or soemthing, i ran md5 checker took md5 i got off mint 5 64 downloads and checked my image the md5 matches

leo5111 · Post by **leo5111** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:20 pm

linux 4 i used to make a ext3 with partition magic in windows put my stuff on the drive then install mint 4 do the commands i showed you and voila! my drive was mountable and useable had to go in as root and set permissions but after that was all gravy mint 5, 64 get permissions not determinable same with mint 6, 64 rc1

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