Linux Lite Forums
Hardware - Support => Hard Drives and SSDs => Topic started by: ChrisL on January 11, 2015, 12:12:05 PM
-
I currently have a small SSD (128Gb) with LL 2.2 on it and which I use for my normal /primary drive/OS.
I have a second convention hard drive (1T) on the machine with Windows 7, Linux Mint Mate and a 500+ Gb partition (ntfs) labeled "Data" that I hoped to store photos/videos, etc. and make them available to all three operating systems. The default boot is LL 2.2 and at the boot menu I can select the others, which works fine.
I was trying to follow this method:
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1609 (http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1609)
I went through the commands to create mount point, take ownership, create directories, find UUID# and then add the fstab additional entries to auto mount. When I boot into LL however, it stops while booting and says "disk drive for 2DEB175417534C94 is not ready or present enter W to wait S to continue or M to manually recover".
(2DEB175417534C94 is the UUID# for my Data partiton) if I Wait, nothing happens, if I Skip it boots fine and then Data shows up on my Desktop and I can mount it there, it shows as "Removable Volume mounted in "/media/chris/Data". If I open it I also don't see the folders I created, but if i try and recreate them in terminal it says they already exist.
If I look at the partitioning in GParted I see /dev/sdb3 (which contains /dev/sdb7 the Data partition) and /dev/sdb7 show up with a set of keys next to them which would seem to indicate they are locked? Is this the issue with the "disk drive not ready or present" or what am I missing here?
Any thoughts?
Chris
-
Wonder if this can apply to you : https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/index.php?topic=1012.0
-
Thanks altman, I will do some more reading in the help manual. I was getting hung up with the locked partitions, but taking another look it seems as though they are just showing as "locked" because I had mounted them.
Will give it another go shortly.
Chris
-
Try mounting your data partition in your /home/user folder.
This is my fstab where I use the the partition label rather than UUID LABEL=data /home/user/data ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000 0 0
I did try mounting at /mnt once but had trouble like you with permissions so I stuck with what worked.
-
Thanks ukbrian.
I seem to have the auto-mount in fstab thing squared away now. Next step will be the Bind part of the project.
I have some questions with that, but will start a new thread as that seems to be a separate topic/discussion.
Chris