Media partition

[Azazello]

Hi , when I installed mint , I made 3 partitions - home , root , media ( and swap ) , the problem is system monitor doesn't recognize the media partition (sda9) , and I can access the media partition only thorough the root folder , any idea how to fix it?

[proxima_centauri]

The problem, I think, is that "/media" is a default folder in the root directory. So if you specified /dev/sda9 to be used as "media" then it is being mounted there. This folder is typically used for "mounted (loaded) removable media such as CDs, digital cameras, etc...". If I understand you correctly, you wish to have a separate media folder for your personal things?
Can you please post the output of this in terminal:

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cat /etc/fstab

[Azazello]

tnx for the fast replay ,
you understand correctly , I saw in mint installation manual to make a partition for media so I did it

fstab -
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=a18d6fde-eb1f-4bb1-88bb-6299d48400d5 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=aec9ff5f-7796-43d3-8c2e-c6b129fa61d1 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# /root/media was on /dev/sda9 during installation
UUID=3fe929d0-ecd2-4847-9eeb-4887dc33719c /root/media ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=3bb10aea-6d47-4eef-82fb-bba4078933cb none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[proxima_centauri]

I think the easiest thing to do is to move the mount location from the root directory, to your home folder.

In the following example, username in /home/username refers to your actual login/username

For instance if you create the folder ~/media, which is the same thing as creating /home/username/media, you can mount /dev/sda9 there by changing fstab

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gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Changing
# /root/media was on /dev/sda9 during installation
UUID=3fe929d0-ecd2-4847-9eeb-4887dc33719c /root/media ext4 defaults 0 2

To something like:
# /home/username/media from /dev/sda9
UUID=3fe929d0-ecd2-4847-9eeb-4887dc33719c /home/username/media ext4 defaults 0 2

[Azazello]

ok, I made the changes , reset , but I don't see any media folder on my home\username folder
the current fstab is

# /home/s/media from /dev/sda9
UUID=3fe929d0-ecd2-4847-9eeb-4887dc33719c /home/s/media ext4 defaults 0 2

[proxima_centauri]

Remember that the folder "media" actually has to exist, you must create it in your home folder.
To avoid restarting, you can type

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sudo mount -a

to effect the changes in fstab without a reboot

[Azazello]

ok , problem solved , thank you very much , but why do I have 1.2 GB used space in this empty folder , I have only lost+found folder inside , and it's size is 16kb ?

[proxima_centauri]

Perhaps you are seeing the used space of /home as a total, and not /home/s/media.

[StanTheMan]

I mount data partitions like this - - lets say your data partition is sda9

First I make my UserName a member of the group ' users ' (system>Users&groups)

Terminal
cd /media
sudo mkdir sda9
(this creates a mount directory for the data partition)

ls -l
This shows how permissions are set for folders in /media , look for sda9

sudo chgrp users sda9
sudo chmod g+rwx sda9
(this gives permissions for a member of the grouup 'users' to read write and execute files which will be mounted to /media/sda9 )

cd /etc
sudo nano fstab

Here you can edit the fstab file using the Nano text editor.

add
/dev/sda9 /media/sda9 ext3 (or ext4) user.exec 0 0

write and save the edited ffstab file.

Now re-boot and sda9 should be automatically mounted and read and writeable to UserName.