Kubuntu vs. Ubuntu

[Marti Andrews]

I understand all this already. My problem is that I cannot seem to mount my disks, which are ntfs. Okay, I will walk you thru it. I go to System Settings, Disk and Filesystems, first of all. They are listed there, in all their glory. I mount them, seemingly successfully, they appear on my desktop, I try to go into them to see the files, and it tells me I don't have root permission.

Marti


> From: michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Kubuntu vs. Ubuntu
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:20:26 -0400
> 
> On Monday 17 September 2007, Marti Andrews wrote:
> 
> > I don't know, you tell me! Is it hidden or something? Remember, I'm BRAND
> > new to all this, I haven't done any reading yet, figuring it should all be
> > intuitive. I'm clicking on System Menu, Users Folders, navigating to the
> > etc folder, and looking for a folder called fstab. Looking alphabetically.
> > Not there.
> 
> Troy probably hit it.  It's a file, not a folder, so it will be further down.  
> I'm 100% positive you have an /etc/fstab file.
> 
> Why are we looking for it again?
> 
> Anyway, it sounds like part of the problem is you need to come to grips with 
> the Unix way of handling filesystems, compared with the DOS way, which has 
> continued forward to be the Windows way.
> 
> The DOS/Windows way is really stupid.  You install a new hard drive, or 
> repartition an old one, and now what was F: is now G:, and G: is now H: and 
> blah blah.  You have to update links to everything when you change something, 
> and this is particularly evil in the age of the Registry.
> 
> The Unix way is utterly different, and mind-boggling at first, but it makes so 
> much more sense at the end of the day.  When you boot, you have to tell the 
> kernel where to find the root partition.  This becomes the / directory, and 
> this is the base of the entire tree.  Everything else will be mounted on this 
> tree somewhere.  A mountpoint is simply a directory.  When you mount a 
> filesystem volume (hard disk partition, CD, DVD, USB stick, etc.) onto the 
> directory (um, directory and folder mean the same thing) it becomes the path 
> through which you access the contents of the volume.
> 
> Thus instead of F:\My Files\Foo you might wind up with something 
> like /media/hdb6/My Files/Foo on your Linux system.
> 
> I'm not sure what all the hullabaloo about not putting icons for your 
> partitions is though.  This is certainly possible.  I guess I'm thinking of 
> KNOPPIX where I've seen the desktop come up with links 
> to /media/hdb6, /media/hda4 and whatever.  Probably that configuration option 
> they're all telling you about, but I don't use graphical froo froo for 
> managing my filesystems as a rule, and I can't relate to how you next 
> generation people think.
> 
> <shakes fist at all the young whippersnappers>
> -- 
> D. Michael McIntyre 
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