Mounting Hard Drives in 8-10

I have been running a duel boot system with XP and 7-10 untill today. I have finally updated to the latest Ubuntu 8-10.

Under 7-10 both of my hard drives were mounted on my desktop, and also listed under places.

With my new install of 8-10 neither one of my two drives are mounted on my desktop. But my XP Partition on one drive is listed and the complete other drive is also listed under places.

How ever If I right click on the drive and click on mount it comes up with an error and asking for my password. is this normal? I dont know how I should proceed if this is a precaution new to 8-10 or if I did something wrong on the installation.

Any Help would be appreciated Sabar

It asks for your password as you are mounting the drive. If you enter your password you can also tick the box to remember the action so next time you should not have to enter it.

Gaz :guitar:

That's what I was kinda figuring. I just get very nervous when things don't look like I think they should.

Thank you very much for helping me out

Sabar

Well I thought I had everything figured out, And then I rebooted the computer.

On Start up my hard drives are no longer mounted on the desktop, so that means Amarok and I am going to assume some other programs can not read them.

This is easily remedied by just going to Places and Clicking on the drives that are listed there. Unfortunately this means that Amarok has to research the folders in order to get my music collection.

Is there some way around this? Some way to keep the Drives mounted on the Desktop even after a start-up?

Thanks for any help that you all can give.

Have you considered adding an entry in /etc/fstab to mount that harddrive/partition upon boot. Then, you don't have to click it to mount it since it would be mounted automatically each time you boot. Post the outputs of these commands if that is what you want to do, adding an entry in /etc/fstab.

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

sudo fdisk -l
sudo blkid
cat /etc/fstab
df -h

sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xeedbeedb

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 10199 81923436 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 10200 19925 78124095 5 Extended /dev/sda5 10200 10442 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 10443 19925 76172166 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x3d8d3d8c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 30400 244187968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

sudo blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="D25076015075ED1B" TYPE="ntfs"

/dev/sda5: TYPE="swap" UUID="677bfbb7-5301-4fc0-9680-e355d4aab3eb" /dev/sda6: UUID="76c83423-bdfc-446a-8d24-77782c734e0d" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sdb1: UUID="92FCF0BFFCF09EA3" TYPE="ntfs"

cat /etc/fstab

/etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/sda6

UUID=76c83423-bdfc-446a-8d24-77782c734e0d / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1

/dev/sda5

UUID=677bfbb7-5301-4fc0-9680-e355d4aab3eb none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda6 72G 4.3G 64G 7% / tmpfs 504M 0 504M 0% /lib/init/rw varrun 504M 100K 504M 1% /var/run varlock 504M 0 504M 0% /var/lock udev 504M 2.8M 502M 1% /dev tmpfs 504M 116K 504M 1% /dev/shm lrm 504M 2.0M 502M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/volatile /dev/sdb1 233G 55G 178G 24% /media/disk /dev/sda1 79G 14G 65G 18% /media/disk-1