Cannot access 2nd HDD after partitioning

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I have a second hard drive in my computer that was previously formatted with NTFS and worked perfectly with openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit, KDE). I thought it would be a Good Idea to move the data off that drive and reformat it with a native Linux file system like EXT4.

After partitioning, however, I can’t do anything with the drive other than mount/unmount and re-partition it. It shows up in Dolphin and contains one folder: “lost+found”. When I try to access that folder, I get an “Could not enter folder /usr/local/lost+found.” error message. The Create and Paste right-click options are also greyed out.

I’ve deleted the partition and re-partitioned it trying different mount points, every available file system type (even FAT), I’ve tried it with both the YaST2 Partitioner and my GParted live disk… all with the same results. I’m probably missing some obvious Fstab option, though I’ve no clue what (I’ve already tried “mountable by user”).

I’m a relative novice when it comes to Linux… obviously I know just enough to get myself into trouble. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Here’s the output of fdisk -l. Note: sdb1 (near the bottom) is the partition I’m having trouble with.


Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x68927cb5


   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048   209711103   104854528    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda2       209712510  1953520064   871903777+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5            4096     4208639     2102272   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6         4210688    46153727    20971520   83  Linux
/dev/sda7        46155776   209711103    81777664   83  Linux


Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x95989598


   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1              63   488392064   244196001   83  Linux
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Use the Yast partitioner to format it again to ext4
This time add a volume label, go to fstab options: SUSE Paste
Ignore the name in my image. But check the mount by user option
Lets say it’s going to be for storage. Just use the label STORE
In the main part window set the mount point /STORE
This will create a folder /STORE

Now reboot

Check. You may still need to chown it
So if your name is: sam

In a terminal do

su -
chown -R sam /STORE
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Perfect! That solved the issue. Thank you so very much! :slight_smile:

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You are most welcome

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On 2013-10-25 08:06, Samasnier wrote:
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> Perfect! That solved the issue. Thank you so very much! :slight_smile:

As you used “/usr/local/” before, please verify that the system
directory “/usr/local/” still contains the correct entries. There should
be bin, games, include, lib, lib64, man, sbin, share, src… and maybe more.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))