Can't see/use my data hd

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:26 am

Welcome to Mint Aramis
The message indicates to me that the drive is mounted in the wrong place so you (uid 1000) are denied to open it.
As it is a fat32 disk it should be mounted by mintDisk
Check in mintDisk that it is set to mount vfat.
Then check your /etc/fstab file and if that disk is mentioned there in any way remove the line. You can't comment it, as mintDisk reads the comments too
You have to be root for this (use sudo)

linuxviolin · Post by **linuxviolin** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:10 am

That is not possible. /etc is a folder and fstab is a file. Are you sure that there is nothing?

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 8:26 am

I'm logged as admin, so what is the problem?

You are advised not to log in as root but instead use sudo.
Did you use

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gksu kate /etc/fstab

If so the only reason for being denied is that you actually are out of space or that something has gone wrong with your sudoers file
It's always good to mention if you do not have the standard gnome edition. The KDE version does not have mintDisk I think, so there is no need to edit fstab

There is the configure ntfs tool in the menu (at least in the Cassandra KDE) so you use that instead

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:11 am

Step by step

I actually don't know if there is a tool for FAT-disks in Mint KDE
but
there is always the old-fashioned way in fstab
add three lines like

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/dev/hdb5 /media/hdb5     vfat    defaults 0       1

To do that use

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gksu kate /etc/fstab

but first copy the present fstab in case something goes wrong.
In a terminal

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sudo cp /etc/fstab  /etc/fstab.bak

A bit clumsy but you easily run into similar problems in Windows and any OS

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:50 pm

Remember the "subtitle" for the newbie forum
You missed a bit. I wrote:

add three lines like
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/dev/hdb5 /media/hdb5 vfat defaults 0 1

To do that use
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gksu kate /etc/fstab

If you read that carefully you realize that you begin with gksu kate ....

This will open fstab for editing
You also realize why I recommended a backup first

And of course - you must replace hdb5 with whatever you have. To find that out open qtparted and look for the designations for fat disks...
sorry for the not-so-user-friendly method, but on the other hand this is something you do once....

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:01 am

OK - I'll have to check this one too, makes it two instances of this error if you're right fdv

And I'm not implying you are not....