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Asked by Sigurd Schmidt

Hi,
in the File System I found a folder called "sda6" right under media. But there is no external storage device with that name. And every time I start Ubuntu it tries to mount this device. The result is a message that this device is not available. I tried to erase this folder. It is not possible because the owner is "root" and I am not allowed to change anything. And of course the folder is not accessible for me. How can I stop Ubuntu to try to mount this not existing device?
Kind regards.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo parted -l

Thanks

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George Standish (george-standish-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Sigurd,

Are you sure there is no sda6 on your system? I find it unlikely that the automounter would add something that doesn't exist. The fact that it's labeled sda means it's on your first hard drive - and the 6 says that it's a logical partition inside an extended partition.

Good luck,
George

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Sigurd Schmidt (sigurdschmidt) said : 		#3

Hi,
I don't know what sudo parted-l is. I am on the way to change from Windows to Ubuntu. And I not yet know Ubuntu well.

Yes, sda-drive is existing. But only in the form of sda1. This is my USB stick label Transcent. sdb is my hard drive. There are partitions created by Acer and by me. I still have Windows 7 on drive C (Acer). And I have drive D (User) as NTFS partition I still use even when Ubuntu is running. This drive D (User) is sdb6 and i want that it is mounted right at start-up of Ubuntu so that I can use it immediately. But there is no partition or external drive called sba6. If I remeber it right for one time the Storage Device Manager showed both devices with exchanged names: sda was the hard drive with sda1 to sda8 and sdb was the USB stick with only sdb1. So how can I erase everything the Storage Device Manager created. Afterwards I could configure the Storage Device Manager to mount sdb6 (User) with start-up.

Kind regards
Sigurd

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Jeruvy (jeruvy) said : 		#4

To help you understand. Hard disks are usually detected and mounted as 'hd' or 'sd' to signify how the drive is physically connected to the computer. 'sd' is commonly used for SATA and 'hd' is common for PATA or IDE drives.
The first drive is sda, the second sdb, etc. This signifies a 'real' HDD, not a partition or filesystem.
sda1 signifies the first partition on the first drive on the SATA chain. sda2, the second. etc.

If sda6 is a NTFS filesystem mounted partition, I would recommend not using it until you have booted (I'm not even sure if it's possible). Is there something on this drive that is needed for you? In most cases these drives are auto-mounted during the boot

But originally you wanted to stop trying to boot this partition, now you want to boot this partition. I'm a little unclear but regardless I'd let it mount but I wouldn't 'use' it until after boot is complete.

The command Actionparsnip asked about will give us information about your partitions so we can see what is what.

Simply open a Terminal: 'Applications' -> 'Accessories' -> 'Terminal'
Copy and paste that command into the terminal and press 'Return/Enter'
Copy and paste the output from that back here.

Good luck.

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