I am running kubuntu 11.04. I installed it in a dual-boot scenario on a single drive, with Windows XP installed first. The XP installation is fubar so I now would like to use the space in kubuntu.I formatted the old partition in gparted and upon trying to access it in a file manager I got the following error:An error occurred while accessing 'space', the system responded: org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.Inhibited: Daemon is inhibitedI am assuming this error is linked to the fact that the partition doesn't have a mount point, but I may well be wrong. I'd just like to have the filesystem set up so that a folder of my specification is using that drive exclusively (e.g. /home/user/files). From what I understand about mount points, I should be able to do that. I am hoping my changing of this drive won't have anything to do with booting or be system-critical. Is this possible? My drive layout looks like this:/dev/sda1    ext3    90.76 GiB    this is where the xp installation was located/dev/sda2    ext3    19.53 GiB    lunix/dev/sda3    swap    1.49 GiBunallocated           2.49 MiBAny help in this would be greatly appreciated, as I am running pretty low on drive space!Thanks
Adding an unused partition to a linux filesystem
ubuntu;filesystems;partition;dual boot
Just mount them on the folder you want, that won't affect booting or anything dangerous.First make sure your destination folder (mount point) exists. You may have to create the folder /path/to/mount/point.Then mount the drive there using the mount command in a terminal (as root):mount /dev/sda1 /path/to/mount/pointYou may have to change permissions on the folder before you can use it as a normal user:chown -R your_user_name /path/to/mount/pointWhen you are satisfied with the setup, edit /etc/fstab to make the system mount the partition automatically. Add the following line:/dev/sda1    /path/to/mount/point    ext3    defaults,noatime    0    0Refer to man mount for more information and options.