By viewing my Disk&File Systems in Hardy, can anyone see why one HDD is partially crippled?

[Steven Vollom]

Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Steven Vollom
> <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>   
>> For over a year, the HDD that my current OS is on, has had its larger
>> partition unusable.  My system is Hardy KDE3.5.10.
>> The HDD is an 80gb Maxtor.  20gb was partitioned with ext3 and made
>> primary.  My current version of Hardy in on that partition.  The balance
>> is 58gb according to Dolphin, and is unusable and empty.  When I click
>> on the vacant HDD, it says 'Permissin Denied'.  I would like to use the
>> empty space.
>>     
>
> Are you doing this as root, or as a regular user? 
To make the changes you have to be in Administrator Mode, so I suppose 
the answer is Root.
>  It sounds to me like you don't have the proper permissions, not that the disk is
> corrupted.
>   
I just checked and I don't.  It is Root Root.  I can't remember how to 
get to properties in Root to make the change.  Is there a way to get to 
that window in a gui and in root?  Or what would I type into the Shell 
to change permissions.  I live alone; there is never anyone else using 
my computer.  So I prefer having everything controlled by user. Is there 
a way to open Dolphin in Root?  The only way I know to open the 
permissions box is to right-click on the item and choose properties.  
But then I am not in Root to be able to make the changes.

> What are you trying to do with this partition?
I just want it for storage.
>   Is it already mounted?
>   
Yes
>  I gather it already has data and you are trying to access that data?
>   
It shouldn't, however, it says there is a little in there.
> Useful commands to run and post the output are (I'm assuming here that
> your hard drive is /dev/sda--change as appropriate):
> cat /etc/fstab
> mount
> sudo parted /dev/sda print
>
> These will tell us what partitions your system is trying to make
> avaliable, what partitions it did make available, and what partitions
> are available.  It's difficult to figure out what is happening without
> a lot more information.
>   
steven at Studio25:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=2795cc01-0df3-4b4d-b46c-0adf8156e4aa / ext3 
nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/sda1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=bddaaee3-408a-4f69-a9bf-b9c47af61b7e /media/sda5 ext3 
nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/sda7
UUID=e8dac51b-91a9-43ab-9d75-cb4d6af8efa3 /media/sda7 ext3 
nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/sda8
UUID=70E9613423CDFF51 /media/sda8 ntfs 
defaults,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,nouser 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=8bb9d04a-5d6e-45bf-9753-cfb6f585b2f3 none swap sw 0 0
# /dev/sdb2
UUID=09850bc0-ac07-4f45-bb39-1eba22243e4d none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /media/sdb5 ext3 owner,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media ext3 owner,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
steven at Studio25:~$
steven at Studio25:~$                                                 

/dev/sdb1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda5 on /media/sda5 type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda7 on /media/sda7 type ext3 (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev           )
/dev/sdb5 on /media/sdb5 type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
steven at Studio25:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb5 print
[sudo] password for steven:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for steven:

Disk /dev/sdb5: 58.5GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Flags
 1      0.00kB  58.5GB  58.5GB  ext3

Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.


> Michael
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