Drive unmounting itself

[Schecters]

I logged in last night (ubuntu 7.10), and noticed that none of my partitions were mounted. I pretty new to Linux, so I have no idea what happened. I was installing some stuff the last time I was on, but I never did anything that had to do with drive mounting. I'm not asking how to remount, because I'm sure that's super easy to find online. But anyone know why it would randomly unmount my secondary hard drive with all the partitions of my files (music, video, installer stuff)?


P.S. I don't know if this is related (probably not) but I installed adobe flash player through firefox's driver fetch thing. When I rebooted, it came up with an error screen, something about gnome. (sorry I'm not at my own computer right now). All of the icons were reverted to like an older state (even though I have never installed any icon packages or even messed with gnome themes).

Linux is fun when stuff doesn't work

[Nitestick]

what type of partition are we talking about her? if these are NTFS partitions from a Windows install then it is common for them to not mount if there has been a hard shutdown. if that's the case reboot into windows and run chkdisk, rebooting should remount them.

[CalcProgrammer1]

Yeah, same happened with my laptop. I did a hard shutdown in Windows XP (NTFS) by holding POWER for 4 seconds, then booted Linux, and it refused to mount my NTFS partition. Nautilus would give an error and the command to remount all partitinons (sudo mount -a) gave an error. I just had to reboot into XP then shutdown properly, it worked fine.

[Schecters]

Yeah I'm pretty sure that's what I was doing. It fixed itself after I got into windows. And I don't know what happened with the icons but that fixed itself too.