topic fdisk help needed in Operating System - Linux

fdisk help needed

manab — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:07:07 GMT

hi ..this is manab..need some help hrom u people..

I installed RHEL4 2nd(64 bit) edition oon my HCL global line server.I left some unused space of my HDD for later used....but when i created new partition named /dev/sda13 (ext3) and mounted it in /linux4 named folder ..though it mounted.. but it shows as removeable media ...in my my GNOME desktop and when I opened computer icon...

Cant make any idea....

regards
Manabjyoti

Re: fdisk help needed

skt_skt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:07:10 GMT

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#mount
#cat /proc/partitions

Re: fdisk help needed

manab — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:06:46 GMT

hi i m sending herewith the output of cat /prob/partition command. My problem is that I got two removable media device icon for the partition /dev/sda13 and /dev/sda14 in my GNOME desktop...

regards
Manab

Re: fdisk help needed

Matti_Kurkela — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:18:36 GMT

Did you configure the new partition in /etc/fstab?

If the partition is not described in /etc/fstab, the desktop may assume it is not intended to be a permanent mounting, so it will display it as a removable media.

MK