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Partition Mounting via pysdm

Asked by Dan Meade

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and relatively new to Linux in general. I'm trying to auto-mount only one of my internal hard drives using Pysdm and its located on /dev/sda1. Every time I attempt set the auto-mount, it redirects to one of my other hard drives located on /dev/sdb5. I don't understand what's happend or how to solve it as apparently the system thinks that sda1 is sdb5 and sdb5 is sdb5.

All other internal drives are NTFS formated (except for the ones for Ubuntu).

Any solutions?

Any help is appreciated thank you.

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#1

Can you post the whatever lines of texts are displayed when issuing the following terminal commands:

sudo fdisk -l

and

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

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Dan Meade (emergency-dm) said : 		#2

for: sudo fdisk -l

dan@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd4a0a425

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 60800 488375968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 808.9 GB, 808888614912 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 98341 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe633e633

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb2 * 2 98341 789916050 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 2 98341 789916018+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1549f232

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc2 13 33432 268435456 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc3 33432 38914 44029952 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Disk /dev/sdd: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc8d00950

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 38914 312568832 7 HPFS/NTFS

for: ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuidls

total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2010-07-06 18:56 4ceadfea-f22d-4924-9bab-6aa78df0e950 -> ../../loop0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-07-06 18:56 58202A99202A7DDE -> ../../sdc1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-07-06 19:34 644E71834E714EB4 -> ../../sdc2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-07-06 18:56 A2C6BFE9DFC159AA -> ../../sdb5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-07-06 18:56 A44CA8274CA7F26A -> ../../sdd1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-07-06 18:56 BA14BBAD14BB6B51 -> ../../sdc3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-07-06 19:23 CC30909D30909056 -> ../../sda1

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Best Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#3

I mislooked your post about the drives formatted as NTFS. Try installing ntfs-config instead to auto-mount your ntfs formatted drives.

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

Unmount all mounted ntfs drives before running the application through the Administration menu. Make sure that "Enable Write Support for Internal Drives" and click OK.

HTH.

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Dan Meade (emergency-dm) said : 		#4

Pysdm still shows sda1 as sdb5, but as long as I don't touch it both drives auto-mounts which is good enough for me. Thanks for your help. :)

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Dan Meade (emergency-dm) said : 		#5

Thanks Ian Ace A. Culallad, that solved my question.