problems mounting a harddisk

Dennis d'Entremont dennis.dentremont at gmail.com
Sun Jul 22 15:51:15 UTC 2007


This is a seperate hard drive that I installed. It's not the drive with the
OS on.

On 7/22/07, Thomas McKay <tom.mckay1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> be sure to remember you cannot unmount the partition your system is
> currently running from. reboot, and using a livecd try again, and i'm
> certain you won't have any issues.
>
> On Sun, 2007-22-07 at 10:55 -0300, Dennis d'Entremont wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 (64Bit) and have installed a 40GB hard drive
> > as a slave (cd rom is master) on my IDE channel. My main disk is a
> > 250GB SATA drive.
> >
> > When I run GPARTED it get an error telling me I do not have permission
> > to mount the drive. I ran gparted (sudo) and was able to get the drive
> > formatted but it still wouldn't mount. I was finally able to get it to
> > mount from the command line (with sudo) but for some reason I can't
> > get it to mount when I'm running it as a regular user.
> >
> > Do I need to add an entry to the fstab file for this to work properly?
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dennis
> >
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