"fdisk -l" gives error: "unable to resolve host kwam-desktop"

If for all /dev/sda* which are HPFS/NTFS are really ntfs you should be able to mount them with

sudo mount -t ntfs -o defaults,umask=007,gid=46 /dev/sda* /path/to/where/you/want/to/access/it

The star you should replace by an according number. You should also make sure that the mount-point-path is an existing empty directory.

/dev/sda2 should be your swap partition and already mounted as such.

For /dev/sda3 you can use
sudo mount -t ext3 -o relatime,errors=remount-ro /dev/sda3 /path/to/partition

And for /dev/sda4 I would use
sudo mount -t vfat -o utf8,umask=007,gid=46 /dev/sda4 /path/to/partition

If you want to always mount these partitions automatically you should consider writing the configurations of these partitions into /etc/fstab. See "man fstab" for more information.

Hope this helped.

If the name of you pc is not the same in these two files you need to change one. Open a terminal run these commands seperately -

cat /etc/hosts
cat /etc/hostname

For example these are mine

cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 kevin-desktop

cat /etc/hostname
kevin-desktop

If they are not the same you can try editing the file within ubuntu using gksudo instead of sudo with gedit

gksudo gedit /etc/hosts

If you are able to open the file with that command - edit it so that the names match in both files, then reboot

If you are not able to do that - reboot into recovery mode - you will end up at a command prompt. You can use nano to edit the file here, in nano to save changes Ctrl+O then enter, to exit Ctrl+X

nano /etc/hosts

make changes then Ctrl+O, enter, Ctrl+X

type reboot and then enter

What I meant to say first is that your "sudo: unable to resolve host kwam-desktop" error is something else which you will need to resolve before you can use sudo

hi
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$ /etc/fstab
bash: /etc/fstab: Permission denied
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$ sudo /etc/fstab
[sudo] password for kwam:
sudo: /etc/fstab: command not found
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$

and i don't understand exactly what
/path/to/where/you/want/to/access/it
should be

thank you forestpixie

problem with hostname is resolved

Glad I could help - have you still got another problem?

hi forestpixie

still cannot mount volume

hi
the drives do get mounted but become unmounted after reboot

"the drives do get mounted but become unmounted after reboot"

what have you done to get them to mount - are they now in fstab or not - if they are not in fstab they will not remount

You need to give a bit more information really - perhaps you could post fstab

cat /etc/fstab

You've had a couple of ideas here - what have you followed - apart from the hosts thing because that is a different issue

wam@kwam-desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda3 :
UUID=fb8082e1-43c3-46a2-9a2f-79760d2ef954 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=2850736850733C1E /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=1408F43F54EC8AC9 /media/sda5 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=1408F4B94DD0B409 /media/sda6 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=b73caa2d-9438-4830-8daf-164776f4310f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/sda8 /media/data3 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda7 /media/data2 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

Well they are all in fstab - did you add them yourself? If you did so, did you also add the necessary folders in /media for the to mount into.

IF you do this from aterminal

ls media (that is a L not a 1)

You should to my mind get these results

sda1 sda5 sda6 cdrom0 data3 data2

If you don't get them all you need to create a folder for the ones which are missing using this syntax

sudo mkdir /media/nameoffolder

eg sudo mkdir /media/data3

Can you also check the output of this straight after a reboot

mount

hi,
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$ ls media
ls: cannot access media: No such file or directory
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$ sudo mkdir /media/data
[sudo] password for kwam:
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$ sudo mkdir /media/data1
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$ sudo mkdir /media/data2
mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/data2': File exists
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$ sudo mkdir /media/data3
mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/data3': File exists
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$ ls media
ls: cannot access media: No such file or directory
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$

sorry

ls /media

this is why it's such a lot easier to use the forums - you get answers quicker and more peoples minds on the job

kwam@kwam-desktop:~$ ls /media
cdrom cdrom0 data data1 data2 data3 sda1 sda5 sda6
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$ mount
/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.24-17-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$

I might have it - but not sure, if this doesn't work I'm not able to help anymore. You could wait for another answer here, or use the ubuntu forum

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=326

Anyway open the file for editing

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

For all of the lines which are ntfs partitions - sda 1,5,6,7 & 8

change the ntfs-3g to read ntfs

save and exit from the file

Reboot

Thanks forestpixie, that solved my question.

Excellent - glad I could help -eventually