mounting drives

I finally got Ubuntu Linux running last night, but it requires that I mount all of my sd and hd devices (excluding hda and hdb, which are my dvdrws)

Whenever I try this, though, it keeps spitting out an error that the filesystem is wrong.. I've tried vfat and ntfs but I still lose.

Any suggestions?

(and no, i'm not going to type rm -rf / into the terminal, thanks)

Give us the output of this command.

sudo fdisk -l

It will help us help you with the problem.

I fucked around a little more and managed to mount the drive, but now it's saying I don't have permission to access it.

I took a guess and tried 'chown (username) /path/to/drive' but that didn't help.

$ sudo nautilus
and try to access your drive
tell me if you can do it that way, you may need ntfs-3g drivers. But first tell me if it works

oh, also: www.oprah.com

that worked :D

now i just need to make it accessible w/o root, then add it to /etc/fstab

>>6
add this to the options part of its entry in /etc/fstab

uid=yourusername,gid=yourusergroup

Where "yourusername" is your username, and "yourusergroup" is your user group. For example, on my system it is uid=patrick,gid=patrick

mounting successful. thankyou sir.

you probably need ntfs-3g drivers, I had the same problem.

Unmount

Install the drivers:
$ sudo aptitude install ntfs-3g

Open fstab:
$ sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add this:
/dev/sda1 /media/windows ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_EN.utf8 0 0
(sda1/sda2/sda3 hda1 etc)

Now get into the /media dir:
cd /media
And make the dir:
$ sudo mkdir windows

And finally:
$ sudo mount windows

>>9
NO YOU