Unrecognized logical partitions by media:/, driving me nuts!

[Hamza]

I tried

mkdir /mnt/sda2 && echo "/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 ntfs-3g locale=pl_PL.UTF-8 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

that didn't work so i tried

mkdir /mnt/sda2 && ntfs-3g /dev/sdc5 /mnt/sdc5 && echo "/dev/sdc5 /mnt/sdc5 ntfs-3g locale=pl_PL.UTF-8 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

hehe , it is for localization

locale=en_US

Regards,

[XAVIER]

OK

A little progress. ,I'm now able to get the partition to automount. But it STILL doesn't show up in media places.

I think the partition needs to be mounted *before* HAL starts, i might be wrong.

[fanthom]

@XAVIER
if 'blkid' doesn't show the partition then there must be something wrong with partition table. i would do a backup and then follow these advices to create new UUID for sda5:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?s= ... stcount=10
maybe it will solve the HAL issue?

"I'm now able to get the partition to automount. But it STILL doesn't show up in media places."
what did you do exactly?

[XAVIER]

what did you do exactly?

Not sure exactly , still trying to figure it out.

I tried adding a UUID with the following command but it didn't work.

dd if=/dev/urandom bs=80 count=1 |xxd -l 80 -c 8 | tail -1 | xxd -r - /dev/sdd5


Note: xxd isn't available in porteus so i had to package and install it manually.
Neither is urandom , but the command seemed to work.


I'm really up against the wall on this one.

Posted after 48 minutes 42 seconds:
Re: Unrecognized logical partitions by media:/, driving me nuts!
I noticed something too, SHIFT+Insert no longer works inside terminal

[brokenman]

I noticed something too, SHIFT+Insert no longer works inside terminal
Ctrl + Shft + v

[XAVIER]

I think if i can change or add a new UUID to the filesystem(partition) i should be able to get HAL and KIOmm to pick it up.

Its a ntfs windows partition however. & i would need to make certain it wouldn't corrupt the logical partition.

All in all its a dangerous move and im not willing to risk the data right now. I wish NTFS played nice with linux. grrr microsloth

[fanthom]

that's why i said that backup is required
up to you if you want to try this solution or just live with this "bug" (if it's your partition table fault then it's not a real porteus bug).

Cheers

[XAVIER]

we switched (or are switching) to a kubuntu base ? , is there a reason for this ?

Posted after 9 hours 1 minute 1 second:
Re: Unrecognized logical partitions by media:/, driving me nuts!
well, i moved everything to another ntfs partition and then formatted with gparted 0.63 , everything looks like it went smoothly and KIO is finally picking up all 3 partition.

ill add more information about exactly what i did soon. thanks for everyones help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


pps: if you guys could help and star this issue for me it would be a HUGE help
http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/is ... il?id=2915

[brokenman]

Done, voted. Keep us posted. Good to see you found a way to hose the PT and start fresh.