A USB drive as (1) 160 GB partition sole purpose data

[Allen Meyers]

Allen Meyers
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On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Thorny <thorntreehome at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:28:42 -0600, allen meyers posted:
>
>> I will state what I am doing, not attesting to it being right and await
>> your critique.
>> 1.I can plug it in, go places and it shows on left tree 160GB. To the
>> right is a data folder and right of that folder Lost+found
>>
>> 2. I can right click on a given file to move to said partition, choose
>> send, the, removable disk & shares, send to 160GB media
>>
>> 3. When I right click on 160GB icon + properties I see the file pie as
>> if I was in windows C and it shows the presence of what I sent, but not
>> titled.
>>
>> 4. This begs the question of an option to move data to partition titled
>> so that it can be retrieved edited or used please advise
>>
>> Finally because I have experienced 2 error 15's I am reluctant to shut
>> down until someone advises me as to the following (a) is it safe to
>> unmount leave plugged in and shutdown with no danger of an error 15 at
>> reboot.
>> (b) is a safer course unmount, unplug, shut down (c) Finally at reboot
>> assuming used option (b) is it plug in, boot or boot, plug in.
>>
>> Please advise
>
> The error 15s are because GRUB doesn't find the file it is looking for,
> there is not just one single cause for that, it could be caused several
> different ways. However, there is no pressing need for you to shutdown at
> this time.
>
> When you do an orderly shutdown, the system unmounts the drives properly
> for you, you don't need to manually unmount or unplug.
>
> No need to go through all of that in "b".
>
> If the MBR sends GRUB to the correct partition (the one where the rest of
> GRUB resides) you won't get an error 15. If you somehow unplug a removable
> device without umounting, it could end up in a state that the system can't
> read. It's probably a good idea to have your /boot partition on an
> internal drive to avoid that possible problem.
>
>
>
> What you don't want to do is unplug the usb device while it is still
> mounted or if the system hasn't finished writing to the disk.
>
> If my memory serves me, this USB drive was the one you previously had a
> partition mounted as your "/media/disk" but you had two partitions on it
> at that time, each of 80G. I think one was "/" for some Operating System.
>
> I remember yours was a multi-boot system (three OS).
> Allen, open a terminal and sudo grub,
> when you get the grub> prompt type, find /boot/grub/menu.lst,
>
> That should tell us (list) the location(s) of the GRUB files, with any
> luck you will just have one and then we will have some specific data. As
> long as your GRUB MBR sends GRUB to the correct partition and that
> partition can be read, you will not get a file not found, error 15. Note
> that command isn't meant to fix anything, it just tells us the location(s)
> of the files we are interested in (the rest of GRUB).
>
> I didn't understand your number 3 & 4, I don't know what you mean by
> "titled". Can you describe it in other words?
>
>
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Hey Thorny and list
I was able to do the 1st command sudo grub and will show response, but
you lost me on the find when you get to grub prompt.

About the titled thing I merely ment if I move a file into data that
is saved as HACCP Compliance, then I need to be able to go to that
partition identify it and perhaps edit it or what ever and return it
to data.
Presently using send to 160GB is eating up storage as evidenced by my
right clicking on icon+properties I see something added, but WHAT.
Yep I am either not moving file correctly or I am going to wrong
location to view present status of partition.
So please advise on this. Here is results
allen at allen-desktop:~$ allen at allen-desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
bash: allen at allen-desktop:~$: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$ # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
allen at allen-desktop:~$ #
allen at allen-desktop:~$ # Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally
unique identifier for a
allen at allen-desktop:~$ # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more
robust way to name devices
allen at allen-desktop:~$ # that works even if disks are added and
removed. See fstab(5).
allen at allen-desktop:~$ #
allen at allen-desktop:~$ # <file system> <mount point>   <type>
<options>       <dump>  <pass>
allen at allen-desktop:~$ proc            /proc           proc
defaults        0       0
bash: proc: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$ # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
allen at allen-desktop:~$ UUID=a75b1a58-0ec8-4dcb-9a52-249f63c48282 /
          ext4    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
bash: /: is a directory
allen at allen-desktop:~$ # swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation
allen at allen-desktop:~$ UUID=c8948da3-9146-40f2-b48f-733f899793fa none
          swap    sw              0       0
bash: none: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$ /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660
user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
bash: /dev/scd0: Permission denied
allen at allen-desktop:~$ /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto
rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
bash: /dev/fd0: Permission denied
allen at allen-desktop:~$ allen at allen-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
bash: allen at allen-desktop:~$: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$ [sudo] password for allen:
bash: [sudo]: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$
allen at allen-desktop:~$ Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
bash: Disk: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$ 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
bash: 255: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$ Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
bash: Units: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$ Disk identifier: 0x000c21c5
bash: Disk: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$
allen at allen-desktop:~$    Device Boot      Start         End
Blocks   Id  System
bash: Device: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$ /dev/sda1   *        3163        4865
13679347+  83  Linux
bash: /dev/sda1: Permission denied
allen at allen-desktop:~$ /dev/sda2            2859        3162
2441880   82  Linux swap / Solaris
bash: /dev/sda2: Permission denied
allen at allen-desktop:~$ /dev/sda3            1590        2858
10193242+  83  Linux
bash: /dev/sda3: Permission denied
allen at allen-desktop:~$ /dev/sda4               1        1589
12763611   83  Linux
bash: /dev/sda4: Permission denied
allen at allen-desktop:~$
allen at allen-desktop:~$ Partition table entries are not in disk order
bash: Partition: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$
allen at allen-desktop:~$ Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
bash: Disk: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$ 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
bash: 255: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$ Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
bash: Units: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$ Disk identifier: 0x5b6ac646
bash: Disk: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$
allen at allen-desktop:~$    Device Boot      Start         End
Blocks   Id  System
bash: Device: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$ /dev/sdb1               1       19457
156288321   83  Linux
bash: /dev/sdb1: Permission denied
allen at allen-desktop:~$ allen at allen-desktop:~$ mount
bash: allen at allen-desktop:~$: command not found
allen at allen-desktop:~$ /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ devpts on /dev/pts type devpts
(rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type
binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/allen/.gvfs type
fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=allen)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
allen at allen-desktop:~$ /dev/sdb1 on /media/disk type ext3
(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

I have discovered  my OS 9.04 I do not need to play around any longer
with distros and I have a purpose for the 160GB drive and that is
storage only

Allen