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Zynx

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Registered: 2012-09-11

Posts: 3

Access To Other Drives

This may be a stupid question for the people who have been using Crunchbang for some time, but I've just started with it and have a rather unique problem. Don't get me wrong... I've been using other flavors of Linux for years and none of them had this problem, either. Keep in mind I'm not a programmer, or even much of a shell guy, for that matter (I was one of these people who put "WIN" at the bottom of my autoexec.bat file so I could avoid DOS completely and boot right into 3.11). The problem is mounting partitions on other drives. I have CB on a 250 GB Seagate SATA drive, LinuxMint 13 on an 80gig Western Digital IDE within the same machine, a 200 GB Maxtor that I haven't decided what to put on it yet, and a 1 TB Seagate that has Windblows 7 and 5 other partitions containing files (Photos, documents, music and so on). With all the other distros I've used, mounting and accessing these partitions was simply a matter of going into a file manager or the "Home" or "Computer" icons, clicking on the partition icon, entering the root password (in some cases), and we're good. Do this with CB and I get an error message saying I can't do that. Don't have the permissions to access them. When I installed CB, I wasn't even ASKED to enter a root password, and that's what's screwing me up. If I had done that on installation, I could probably figure it out. Of course, the whole Openbox thing is new as well, so it's possible I'm missing something simple that I wasn't looking for in GNOME and KDE. Any thoughts, solutions and even ridicule would be greatfully accepted.

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Zynx

snowpine

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Registered: 2008-11-24

Posts: 2,554

Re: Access To Other Drives

You can mount other drives with sudo mount (see man mount for more details)

For example:

sudo mkdir /mnt/sda1
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

(mounts the 1st partition on the 1st drive to a new folder we create called /mnt/sda1)

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schwim

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Registered: 2012-10-11

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Re: Access To Other Drives

Hi there zynx,

Before you do anything else, check my thread, in which my identical problem was resolved.

I stopped at installing disk-manager, but the fix to the bug is further down the thread, if you can bring yourself to open a terminal

Zynx

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Registered: 2012-09-11

Posts: 3

Re: Access To Other Drives

Perfect! Thanks so much Schwim and the others that posted to his thread! Just might be getting rid of Windblows yet.

saneks

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Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 735

Re: Access To Other Drives

i am very sure you had to enter a password twice during the install. this is your root password.

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