Help required with ext3 partion on Edgy-Eft - V6.10

[Romeo Dionne]

Initially, I used the "Systems Settings" progam and made options changes there. That brought up a screen to allow "Loop". When I clicked "ok" system came back with an error message that it couldn't do what I asked. On rebooting, the drive had disappeared completely. Did a complete new install.

This morning, I discovered the "mount -a" command and used it in a root terminal. the system did not respond with any messages. Seemed to have accepted the command ok. But, still could not write to the drive.

I then used kate as root and made changes to the fstab directly, hit save, did the "mount -a" and again no messages just a return to the bash prompt. I repeated this exercise 8 times with different fstab configurations, the last one included a "uid=1000,gid=100" option. This too appeared to be acceptable at first, though the "mount -a" command provided no feedback. However, out of desperation I rebooted the computer and on reloading the screen loaded up with gobbledygook that ended with stating the uid and gid options were invalid options. after a few moments the system resumed loading.

Tested the drive again. Still not able to write to the drive. Thats when I went for help.

----- Original Message ----
From: Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 1:45:42 PM
Subject: Re: Help required with ext3 partion on Edgy-Eft - V6.10

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 10:13 -0800, Romeo Dionne wrote:
> This setup does not allow me write access to /dev/sda1 /linuxfiles
> even though the rw option is listed. I can read the drive, no problem;
> I just cannot write to it. 

Also, please paste the output that you get when you enter "mount" in a
terminal window.


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