I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on my HP G62-453 TU Laptop. I cannot access the contents of my hard disk partition E.
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I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on my HP G62-453 TU Laptop. I cannot access the contents of my hard disk partition E.
Best Answer
This is assuming that you have installed Ubuntu in a dual-boot setup alongside Windows.
Open the terminal, and type
df -h
This will show you the drives mounted as well as occupied and free space. Look for the filesystem mounted at /
This is your Linux partition.
Now type
cd /dev/
, thenls
.You should see several entries like
Each sd* is a storage volume, and the number is the partition. The above example has two partitions (
sda1
,sda2
) on the boot drive and two external drives available(sdb
,sdg
). You need to mount the partition before accessing it. On my system, I have four partitions set up on my boot drivewhere
sda5
is my Linux partition,sda2
is the Windows partition andsda3
is the common storage partition.To mount the drives right now, type
sudo mount /dev/sdaX
, where X is the number of the partion to mount.To automatically mount the drives on boot, install mountmanager by typing
This installs an application that allows you to configure the auto-mounting of drives upon boot. Open it up, and in the filetree select the sd* partition available, then enter the mount point for the partition. I use the
/media/
folder as the base mount point, then you specify the mount folder.For example, my
/media/
folder looks likeOnce you've done this, you apply the changes via
Partition -> Apply
This should make your partition visible in both Natutilus and the command line in
/media/