It does indeed!
Never mind the "proc" line -- that's just a location to keep an on-the-fly record of what your system is up to.
It
looks as though you've only got one hard drive registered -- /dev/hda
-- which will be your primary (hardware-wise) hard disk. This is listed
as having two partitions for mounting: /dev/hda1 which is mounted on
the root mount-point "/", and /dev/hda5 which is your swap partition.
Never mind the latter.
For /dev/hda1, the principal option to look at is "defaults", which is an umbrella for the following specific options:
rw -- readable and writeable
suid
-- Allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take
effect (in effect allows other users to have the rights of the "owner"
user, for files on the file-system which have appropriate "permission
bits").
dev -- Interpret character or block special devices on the file system (a technical one)
exec -- Permit execution of binaries (programs) stored in the filesystem
auto -- To be mounted aitomatically during boot-up
nouser -- Forbid an ordinary (i.e. non-root) user to mount the file system.
async -- All I/O to the file system should be done asynchronously
The
above are normal defaults. In particular the "rw" option allows writing
and deleting, as well as reading. The alternative is "ro" which
allows read-only access.
*** You do not have a second
(hardware) hard drive listed *** You may have one installed in the
machine, but it is not known to your Linux installation. And, apart
from the "swap" partition /dev/hda5,
*** You do not have a second partition on your primary hard disk ***
Meybe,
when you wrote "how do I get Ubuntu to allow me to delete and write to
the second hard drive or a usb external drive?", you meant a second
partition on your primary physical hard disk. Ex-Windows users can get
confused owing to the obfuscation generated by names like "Drive C:",
"Drive D:", "Drive E:" etc. as if these were separate drives; usually
they are not -- simply separate partitions of a single hard disk;
though if you install a second hard disk you will find its primary
partition becomes "Drive D:" on your system and your previous "Drive
D:", "Drive E" ... move up to "Drive E:", Drive F:" ... . Thank you Mr
Gates!
In Linux, your physical hard disk will be called /dev/hda
for your primary master, /dev/hdb for your primary slave, /dev/hdc for
your secondary master, /dev/hdd for your secondary slave. Each of these
will have its disk space partitioned (you must have at least 1
partition on each disk), and the partition names will be like
/dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, etc.
You do not have a /dev/hdb listed, so
no primary slave hard disk (even if one is in the box). Your /dev/hdc
and /dev/hdd correspond to two CDROM drives assecondary master and
secondary slave. These are not automatically mounted at boot-time
("noauto") so will be mounted by the system when needed.
If you
do have a second physical hard disk, it will not be "seen" by the
system unless it has been mounted in "filesystem" space, and this
cannot happen (except by a forcing"mount" command issued at the command
line) if it does not have an entry in /etc/fstab.
As further diagnostics, what happens if you (as root) enter the following command?
NB!! DO NOT USE ANYTHING EXCEPT THE "p" AND "q" COMMANDS IN FDISK FOR NOW!!
fdisk /dev/hdb
[and then when you get the prompt " Command (m for help):"]
p
[and then you should het a listing of the partitions on /dev/hdb. Please post the result] [THEN]
q
[to quit from fdisk]
If you don't have a second physical hard disk, do the same as the above for your primary one:
fdisk /dev/hda
p
q
Hoping this helps to make progress!