The hdd (500GB SATA) of my new Ubuntu 8.04 install is set up:
Primary partitions:
sda1 46.7 GB NTFS (Cannot for the life of me remember why I formated sda1 as NTFS.)
sda2 1.86 /swap
sda3 7.45 /
Extended:
sda4 409.88
sda5 37.25 /home
sda6 372.66 /media/disk
Under "Places" there appear two (slightly different icons, presumeably having to do with the different formatting): 50 GB Media and 400.1 GB Media. These appear to be sda1 and sda6 respectively.
When I click on the 400 GB icon, it shows only one folder: Lost + Found, size 0, with properties as: contents unreadable and 350.9GB of free disk space. One forum post says:
Quote:
lost+found is a directory that fsck uses to store any unconnected files or directories it finds after a dirty shutdown
Don't recall any traumatic shutdowns, but I found all of this as a result of trying to copy files from my windows computer into this partition and got a "no permission to write to this.." denial. And when I right click into the empty space below the "Lost + Found" the Create Folder, Create Document, and Paste options are all greyed out. Also cannot delete the Lost + Found folder.
Any ideas how to figure out what, if anything, is in Lost + Found (doubt it), how to delete it, and what to do about restoring permissions?
Primary partitions:
sda1 46.7 GB NTFS (Cannot for the life of me remember why I formated sda1 as NTFS.)
sda2 1.86 /swap
sda3 7.45 /
Extended:
sda4 409.88
sda5 37.25 /home
sda6 372.66 /media/disk
Under "Places" there appear two (slightly different icons, presumeably having to do with the different formatting): 50 GB Media and 400.1 GB Media. These appear to be sda1 and sda6 respectively.
When I click on the 400 GB icon, it shows only one folder: Lost + Found, size 0, with properties as: contents unreadable and 350.9GB of free disk space. One forum post says:
Quote:
lost+found is a directory that fsck uses to store any unconnected files or directories it finds after a dirty shutdown
Don't recall any traumatic shutdowns, but I found all of this as a result of trying to copy files from my windows computer into this partition and got a "no permission to write to this.." denial. And when I right click into the empty space below the "Lost + Found" the Create Folder, Create Document, and Paste options are all greyed out. Also cannot delete the Lost + Found folder.
Any ideas how to figure out what, if anything, is in Lost + Found (doubt it), how to delete it, and what to do about restoring permissions?