Re: [gnome-love] I can't see the hard disks!

[Evan Klitzke <eklitzke lists gmail com>]

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 18:26 +0100, Daniel wrote:
> On my desktop there is the icon of My Computer.  I press it in order
> to see all the files.  Under Home folder I can see the files that I
> wrote or made.  But when I press File System I can't see the hard
> disks!  (I partitioned the other hard disk which has windows XP and I
> tried to see it in Linux Ubuntu too).  
>
> Now it seems that there is a sign of a lock next to the File system.
> I can't unlock it.  If I press right click, I find properties.  If I
> look for permissions it tells me that I'm not the owner!!! What can I
> do to unlock it and see the hard disks.  I know that they are ok with
> ubuntu because I've seen them from the terminal window but I need  to
> see them from the desktop too in order to put some common files for
> both windows and ubuntu in this newly created partition. 
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 and gnome 2.16.1  I use dual boot.  
>
> Thanks for your patience! 

Daniel,

This isn't the appropriate mailing list to ask these kinds of questions
on (the ubuntu-users mailing list would probably be best in this case),
but since you asked nicely I will try to help you :-)

On Unix/Linux systems, you need to "mount" a device like a hard disk in
order to access the files on it. By default, only the root user can do
this. I am not an Ubuntu user, but I am pretty sure this is the "Ubuntu"
way to configure this:
1) Open a terminal
2) type in: sudo mkdir /mnt/shared
3) type in: gksu gedit /etc/fstab
4) Add a line like this to the file:
   /dev/hda1  /mnt/shared  ntfs defaults,user 0 0
If the filesystem of the drive is FAT, you should change "ntfs" to
"vfat". Also, in this example, I am assuming that the partition
is /dev/hda1, which is probably the first partition on your drive. If
it's a different partition, you might have to change this number.

Now you should be able to mount the partition by typing
"mount /mnt/shared" in a terminal window. If you reboot, it should also
be mounted. You will find the partition at /mnt/shared

Since this isn't really a Gnome question, if this doesn't work out for
you (and I hope it does), I advise you to seek further help on one of
the Ubuntu mailing lists, or on the Ubuntu IRC channel. And I hope you
enjoy using Gnome!

-- 
Evan Klitzke