Comments on: How to add a new hard disk drive to an ubuntu desktop http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/05/how-to-add-a-new-hard-disk-drive-to-an-ubuntu-desktop/ Describing our migration to open source software and UK business issues in label printing. Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:26:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Adrian http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/05/how-to-add-a-new-hard-disk-drive-to-an-ubuntu-desktop/#comment-6703 Adrian Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:13:58 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/05/how-to-add-a-new-hard-disk-drive-to-an-ubuntu-desktop/#comment-6703 Hi Paul Thanks for this comment. I tried to do this but after installing it using the add/remove applications it wont start, saying "there are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount/unmount, Contact your administrator". I thought this was a permissions issue, but there is only 1 user on this installation and I couldnt work out how to run gparted as sudo or root without the command line, which I only wanted to run as a last resort when using fdisk, as there is serious potential for cock ups! Any further suggestions Paul for myself and other any people who stumble across this thread? I hope the new job is going well, I read your posts on Android with interest even though its not relevant to us. Hi Paul

Thanks for this comment. I tried to do this but after installing it using the add/remove applications it wont start, saying “there are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount/unmount, Contact your administrator”. I thought this was a permissions issue, but there is only 1 user on this installation and I couldnt work out how to run gparted as sudo or root without the command line, which I only wanted to run as a last resort when using fdisk, as there is serious potential for cock ups!

Any further suggestions Paul for myself and other any people who stumble across this thread?

I hope the new job is going well, I read your posts on Android with interest even though its not relevant to us.

]]> By: Paul Cooper http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/05/how-to-add-a-new-hard-disk-drive-to-an-ubuntu-desktop/#comment-6699 Paul Cooper Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:55:19 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/05/how-to-add-a-new-hard-disk-drive-to-an-ubuntu-desktop/#comment-6699 Adrian, you could just install GParted on Ubuntu and partition the disk and mount partitions without having to use a livecd. Also if you go back over the notes from the Linux admin course you could do that on the command line using fdisk, mkfs, and editing /etc/fstab (but admittedly that's more hardcore than just using GParted). Adrian, you could just install GParted on Ubuntu and partition the disk and mount partitions without having to use a livecd. Also if you go back over the notes from the Linux admin course you could do that on the command line using fdisk, mkfs, and editing /etc/fstab (but admittedly that’s more hardcore than just using GParted).

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