External Drive

[anthony2010]

Hi all.

Running Mint 6 KDE and I think its nothing short of brilliant!

Now, I have just one slight prob and that is, I cant write to my external drive. I notice Gparted isnt in this package so Im guessing theres an alternative way of doing things. I have posted this problem in the Newbies section on the regular forum but was unaware there was a specific KDE forum. Hence double post.

Any Ideas all?

ant.

[miket]

Hi Anthony,

You can install gparted from the comman line, pop open a terminal and type:

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sudo apt-get install gparted

Mike.

Hi all.

Running Mint 6 KDE and I think its nothing short of brilliant!

Now, I have just one slight prob and that is, I cant write to my external drive. I notice Gparted isnt in this package so Im guessing theres an alternative way of doing things. I have posted this problem in the Newbies section on the regular forum but was unaware there was a specific KDE forum. Hence double post.

Any Ideas all?

ant.

[Boo]

you could install mountmanager.

Boo

[iironjade]

If you've been using your external HD in a Windows machine you have to use Windows' "Safely Remove Hardware" option, otherwise your Linux machine won't recognise it correctly.

[anthony2010]

Hi all.

Downloaded Gparted and remarkably, without clicking anything other than asking it to show me the drive ( which it did) it now works!

The KDE is a great desktop.

Thanks Boo and everyone for the help.

ant.