On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 18:26 +0100, Daniel wrote: > On my desktop there is the icon of My Computer. I press it in order > to see all the files. Under Home folder I can see the files that I > wrote or made. But when I press File System I can't see the hard > disks! (I partitioned the other hard disk which has windows XP and I > tried to see it in Linux Ubuntu too). > > Now it seems that there is a sign of a lock next to the File system. > I can't unlock it. If I press right click, I find properties. If I > look for permissions it tells me that I'm not the owner!!! What can I > do to unlock it and see the hard disks. I know that they are ok with > ubuntu because I've seen them from the terminal window but I need to > see them from the desktop too in order to put some common files for > both windows and ubuntu in this newly created partition. > > I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 and gnome 2.16.1 I use dual boot. > > Thanks for your patience!
Daniel, This isn't the appropriate mailing list to ask these kinds of questions on (the ubuntu-users mailing list would probably be best in this case), but since you asked nicely I will try to help you :-) On Unix/Linux systems, you need to "mount" a device like a hard disk in order to access the files on it. By default, only the root user can do this. I am not an Ubuntu user, but I am pretty sure this is the "Ubuntu" way to configure this: 1) Open a terminal 2) type in: sudo mkdir /mnt/shared 3) type in: gksu gedit /etc/fstab 4) Add a line like this to the file: /dev/hda1 /mnt/shared ntfs defaults,user 0 0 If the filesystem of the drive is FAT, you should change "ntfs" to "vfat". Also, in this example, I am assuming that the partition is /dev/hda1, which is probably the first partition on your drive. If it's a different partition, you might have to change this number. Now you should be able to mount the partition by typing "mount /mnt/shared" in a terminal window. If you reboot, it should also be mounted. You will find the partition at /mnt/shared Since this isn't really a Gnome question, if this doesn't work out for you (and I hope it does), I advise you to seek further help on one of the Ubuntu mailing lists, or on the Ubuntu IRC channel. And I hope you enjoy using Gnome! -- Evan Klitzke _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
