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Installation 10.10 and 2e internal hdd

Asked by lemaire_eugene@hotmail.com

Everybody,

After a clean installation of ubuntu 10.10 the software is not able to show me the second internal hdd of my laptop ( hp paviljon dv9700)

The hdd is visible in the program 'storage device manager' (sda & sdb) but the entire screen is grey.

It shows in the program 'mount manager' that sdb1 has NO mountpoint while sda1 has one. I don't know what that means or what the mountpoint of sdb1 should be.

It's a rather large problem for me because most of my data is on the second hdd. It has been working fine in 10.04 so the problem is entirely in 10.10!

Has anybody got an idea how to solve this?

This is the output of sudo fdisk -l (it is in dutch however):

Schijf /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 koppen, 63 sectoren/spoor, 19457 cilinders
Eenheid = cilinders van 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sectorgrootte (logischl/fysiek): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
in-/uitvoergrootte (minimaal/optimaal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Schijf-ID: 0x00050279

 Apparaat Opstart Begin Einde Blokken ID Systeem
/dev/sdb1 1 18663 149903360 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 18663 19458 6384641 5 uitgebreid
/dev/sdb5 18663 19458 6384640 82 Linux wisselgeheugen

Schijf /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 koppen, 63 sectoren/spoor, 19457 cilinders
Eenheid = cilinders van 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sectorgrootte (logischl/fysiek): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
in-/uitvoergrootte (minimaal/optimaal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Schijf-ID: 0x2bda47a4

 Apparaat Opstart Begin Einde Blokken ID Systeem
/dev/sda1 * 1 18662 149902483+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 18663 19457 6385837+ 5 uitgebreid
/dev/sda5 18663 19457 6385806 82 Linux wisselgeheugen
eugene@Eugene:~$ ^C
eugene@Eugene:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you also give the output of:

mount; echo; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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lemaire_eugene@hotmail.com (lemaire-eugene) said : 		#2

Dear sirs,

Here's the requested information:

eugene@Eugene:~$ mount; echo; lsb_release -a; uname -a
/dev/sdb1 on / type ext4 (rw,commit=0,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=0,commit=0)
none on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs type debugfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /media/16ded336-2450-4477-982c-f49ecc0affa0 type ext4 (rw,commit=0)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/home/eugene/.Private on /home/eugene type ecryptfs (ecryptfs_sig=883de51e4a932c9a,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=31e39b50e7c302fd,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/eugene/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=eugene)

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick
Linux Eugene 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:48 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
eugene@Eugene:~$

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#3

Have a look at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount
If you still need help, post again.

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Best Patrick M (prmillius) said : 		#4

Maybe this will help.

Unlike windows, where drives show up as a letter followed by a colon (X:); The EXT filestructre shows drives as a part of the tree, usually something like /media/name-of-drive or sometimes /media/usbx (where x is a digit 0-99) for usb drives. For an internal drive you would probably want to create a mount point in your home folder or in /home if you want all user accounts on the pc to access it. You can do that with mountmanager

So the problem you are having is that for whatever reason Ubuntu hasn't mounted the drive.
If you have mount manger you can fix that. First read the help, especially more about the program.

With mount manger open, right click on the unmounted drive and you will see a mount prompt. To mount the drive,check the options to be sure you give yourself user rights to add and create files on the drive. These can be done through the mountmanager GUI. Then choose a mountpoint something like/home/yourhomefolder/name your drive or volume label here. Click apply from the top left drop down. that should mount the drive. Might have to reboot for it to actually mount.

mountmanager has instructions on dynamic mount point (as a filename rather than a /usb, /usr/ or /dev) for easiest mounting and remounting for all users. Choosing file that has only root priviliges as a mount point usually means only root priviliges for the mounted drive. It would be best to spend a few seconds reading the options and give the mountpoint a dynamic prefix based on specific device or name ( the volume label for example, or whatever you want to name it)

It isn't too hard to figure out what you're doing once you understand that the initial place the drive shows up in the Linux filetree is usually NOT the mount point, except for default boot drives, and even that could be changed for specific reasons. Mount points are set either automatically or by the user.

Here's the caveat: If you have made your clean install of 10.10 on the new drive and the other still has 10.04 on it , you might cause situation where your box will freeze if you try and mount the second drive, depending on how the bootloader is configured.

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Patrick M (prmillius) said : 		#5

PS sda1 is the drive you booted in from sdb1 is the one you want to mount.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#6

What's currently your situation ?

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lemaire_eugene@hotmail.com (lemaire-eugene) said : 		#7

Thanks Patrick M, that solved my question.