So I’ve just switched over from Windows XP, and I think I’ll stick with openSUSE lol!
I have two SATA hard drives, an 80GB and a 640GB. I have the OS on the 80GB one and I want to use the 640 just for storage. How can I set it up so that anytime I save anything it will go to the big hard drive?
Point it there in whatever application you are using.
I guess I should have been a little more clear. Whenever I try to click on the 640 gig hard drive in Dolphin A pink error message shows up on the bottom of the window that says
“An error occured while accessing ‘New_Volume’, the system responded: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed auth_admin_keep_always ← (action, result)”
So I haven’t been able to save anything to it so far.
Open a terminal and become su and then type:
fdisk -l
post result
cat /etc/fstab
post result
Okay this is what all the terminal stuff looks like:
**linux-32ji:~ #** fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0003e497
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2874 9729 55070820 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfe4dfe4d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 77825 625129281 83 Linux
**linux-32ji:~ #** cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD800JD-00MSA1_WD-WMAM9DUJ5758-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD800JD-00MSA1_WD-WMAM9DUJ5758-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD800JD-00MSA1_WD-WMAM9DUJ5758-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
linux-32ji:~ #
The device is not listed in /etc/fstab
You can go to Yast - System - Partitioner to set a mount point for it. You get a warning going here, so do be careful.
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An alternative
you might have luck manually adding it by editing /etc/fstab
FSTAB - Editing Manually - openSUSE Forums
Create a folder in /home/username/folder_name
Add the line
/dev/sdb1 /home/username/folder_name ext3 defaults 1 2
username= your username eg: James
folder_name= whatever you want to see Eg: Store
so that would be
/dev/sdb1 /home/James/Store ext3 defaults 1 2
Insert the line under
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD800JD-00MSA1_WD-WMAM9DUJ5758-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
save and reboot
If that code doesn’t work use this ending:
ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
So I added that line in /etc/fstab, and when I rebooted it wanted me to give the root password and then repair a filesystem. This is what all the stuff it said:
Checking file systems...
fsck 1.41.1 (01-Sep-2008)
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD800JD-00MSA1_WD-WMAM9DUJ5758-part3: clean, 956/3442096files, 278677/13767705 blocks
fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is balid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
blogd: no message logging because /var file system is not accessible
ehci-hcd ohci-hcd uhci-hcd USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
usb-ohci usb-uhci
fsck failed for at least one filesystem (not /).
Please repair manually and reboot.
The root file system is is already mounted read-write.
Attention: Only CONTROL-D will reboo the system in this
maintenance mode. shutdown or reboot will not work.
Give root password for login:
(repair filesystem) #
So I’m not really sure what to do here due to my incredible noobishness. So I’m posting this from my laptop >.<
Boot with Parted magic cd and format the drive to ext3.
Try again