[SOLVED] New HD

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Nobody said to change to a root prompt

and when I say YOUR home directory, I mean YOUR home directory (/home/peter) .. not THE /home directory, or root's home (/root)

Open a terminal, and enter:

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ls ~/

and post the output.
(and don't change to a root prompt first)

[pooky2483]

Hi Mark, just an update;
I'm making slow progress, I'm looking at an old thread http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=9716.30 and carefully followinf the instructions and backing it up and editing it.
Managed to mount the new 2Tb HD and now moving files across to it.
I will then take out the first 250Gb HD and then put back in the 1Tb HD
Then move the remaining filed from the other 250Gb HD to the 2Th HD and then remove the 250Gb HD
So all I will have in my tower is the 500Gb HD Boot
a 1Tb HD
and the new 2Tb HD

I'm slow but I'm learning bits, if I need help, I'll give you a shout.

Thanks
Pete

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

OK, your call .. but if you've mounted it somewhere other than YOUR Home directory, you may run into permission problems.

And if you get the fstab entry wrong, you could end up with all sorts of problems.

Good luck.

[pooky2483]

OK, your call .. but if you've mounted it somewhere other than YOUR Home directory, you may run into permission problems.

I <think> I may have not mounted it in my Home directory as a folder in my new 2Tb HD 'Drive4' has a padlock symbol on it?

And if you get the fstab entry wrong, you could end up with all sorts of problems.

Good luck.
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I have got one problem, the NTFS drive is not being recognised for some reason, I reccon it's something to do with the program or whatever to do with making the system understand/see NTFS drives?

[pooky2483]

Sorted the NTFS problem out, the program had <gone> again but I've fount the thread where you helped me with that problem last time and now I've reinstalled it.

The next one is, I think I may have mounted the 2Tb HD as root and not <me> so when O boot as normal, I cant create folders or copy to it.
Need to unmount as <root>and remount as <me>

[BkS]

Just run (if it's a directory in YOUR HOME folder:

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sudo chown -R peter:peter /peter/StorageDicrectoryHere

If it's mounted outside it run:

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sudo chown -R peter:peter /media/NameOfDriveHere

[pooky2483]

Just run (if it's a directory in YOUR HOME folder:

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sudo chown -R peter:peter /peter/StorageDicrectoryHere

If it's mounted outside it run:

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sudo chown -R peter:peter /media/NameOfDriveHere

Thanks for that, it's sorted the padlocked folder but also took the padlock off 'lost+found
How do I set it back on that folder?

[pooky2483]

or doesn’t that matter?

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

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sudo chown -R root:root /path/to/lost+found

or don't bother .. up to you.

[BkS]

Doesn't really matter if I'm honest.

[pooky2483]

Sorted all that out.
I've transferred all files temporarily over to the 2Tb HD, now what I want to do (but having difficulty in doing) is;
format the 1Tb HD and rename it 'Drive3' and mount it (it's 'sdc1' btw) and then put all the stuff back on it.

I keep getting  'mount: mount point /media/Drive3 does not exist'

[BkS]

Go to Disk Utility and see if your hard-drives are listed there.

Click on the drive you want to format, you can do it from that.

OR

You can burn Gparted to a disc, restart your computer and boot into the disc and format them that way.

I'd recommend the latter as the drives won't be mounted, but as with any partition editing / manipulation, it carries a small risk of corruption.

[pooky2483]

I'm using Disk Utility but I think its something to do with the order pf which I'm doing things and I keep getting mount error as its possibly something to do with it previously being an NTFS formatted HD.
 I've tried in Disk Utility and Terminal and cant get anywhere.
In Disk Utility I get 'Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: mount point /media/Drive3 does not exist'

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Erm .. why reformat if he says it's already formatted ?

What is the output from:

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ls -a /media

and

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mount

and

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sudo fdisk -l

and the contents of:

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gedit /etc/fstab

[EDIT]

I think it's likely you've formatted as a Linux file system ? .. but are still using ntfs-3g as the file system helper in fstab

[pooky2483]

Erm .. why reformat if he says it's already formatted ?

What is the output from:

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ls -a /media

peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$ ls -a /media
.  ..  Drive4  Win-MyDocs  WIn-MyDocs  Win-Storage  Win-Video
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$

and

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mount

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peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/Win-MyDocs type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,commit=0)
/dev/sdd1 on /media/Drive4 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,commit=0)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/peter/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=peter)
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$

and

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sudo fdisk -l

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peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for peter:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b1c6d

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048   971007999   485502976   83  Linux
/dev/sda2       971010046   976771071     2880513    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       971010048   976771071     2880512   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders, total 490234752 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e3991

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1              63   490223474   245111706   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002506b

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1              63  1953520064   976760001   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdd: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0009b408

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1              63  3907024064  1953512001   83  Linux
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$

and the contents of:

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gedit /etc/fstab

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=959cb526-06f8-4d5d-bec2-a6b42f438b07 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=e56dad6b-358f-4948-b51f-4abce81f50b1 none            swap    sw              0       0

#edited
#/dev/sdb1 /media/Win-Storage ntfs-3g defaults,user,locale=en_GB.utf8 0 0                             
#/dev/sdc1 /media/Win-MyDocs ext4 rw,user,exec 0 0
#/dev/sdd1 /media/Win-Video ntfs-3g defaults,user,locale=en_GB.utf8 0 0

#original
#/dev/sdb1 /media/Win-Storage ntfs-3g defaults,user,locale=en_GB.utf8 0 0
#/dev/sdc1 /media/Win-MyDocs ext4 rw,user,exec 0 0
#/dev/sdd1 /media/Win-Video ntfs-3g defaults,user,locale=en_GB.utf8 0 0

# new attempt
# just need to re-install the 1Tb HD

#/dev/sdc /media/Win-Storage ntfs-3g defaults,user,locale=en_GB.utf8 0 0
#
/dev/sdb1 /media/Win-MyDocs ext4 rw,user,exec 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/Drive3 ext4 rw,user,exec 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /media/Drive4 ext4 rw,user,exec 0 0

As you can see, I am in the process of editing it.

[EDIT]

I think it's likely you've formatted as a Linux file system ? .. but are still using ntfs-3g as the file system helper in fstab

I'm not 100% sure,as I want to format it as ext4 overwriting the NTFS format