unaccessible partitions / the mistress refuses

Alright. First big strubbles in my new relationship.

If I want to access all the logical places to store files (Places –> Computer) I am simply refused to do so. The only place where I can put files that is sensible is the desktop.

Unable to mount the selected volume.
error: device /dev/hda6 is not removable
error: could not execute pmount

Somebody then suggested to say this to her (she has a special place where you can chat her up):

wget http://media.ubuntu-nl.org/scripts/diskmounter
sudo bash diskmounter
rm diskmounter

This helped greatly to get access to all the partitions but led to a not so nice find: I had ended up with “copies” of all the folders and files of / (root) also being in /home. So I had suddenly double /home/home and generally a situation you can summarise as something that you should seriously avoid altogether…

I had to face fact to me myself and I having screwed up during the installation. Step 6.

So I wrote this blog whilst waiting for suggestions from my new friends at forum.ubuntu-nl.org, but since it’s now 3.30 a.m. in the part of the world where I live this help is not forthcoming just now. Which explains why and how this little blog-idea got suddenly so extended.