Kubuntu 8.10 does not recognise external HD with NTFS and FAT32 partitions.

[Bas Roufs]

Hello Eberhard and Everybody

> In order to identify your device please do sudo fdisk -l

Thx. for this suggestion! But already in this stage, I get stuck. By
doing this command, I do manage I manage to correctly identify the two
hard disks built in my desktop PC: the 80 GB disk and the 160 GB one.
Even the NTFS file system of the windows partition at the 80 GB disk
is being recognised. Here are the details from the terminal:

bas at Viaconsensus1:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for bas:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x09590958

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        3824    30716248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            3825        9729    47431912+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            3825        9729    47431881    b  W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/sdb: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xadf256f8

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        1992    16000708+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            1993       19929   144078952+   5  Extended
/dev/sdb5            1993        2116      995998+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6            2117       10879    70388766   83  Linux
/dev/sdb7           10880       19554    69681906   83  Linux
/dev/sdb8           19555       19929     3012156   82  Linux swap / Solaris

I recognise perfectly well the configuration of the 80 GB SDA HD - the
one with a Windows partition and a special data partition, accessible
via both Windows and Linux. It also makes clear that both NTFS and
FAT32 partitions can be correctly recognised as such.

Also the SDB 180 GB schedule is a clear cut story for me - it
correctly charts the configuration consisting of Kubuntu 7.10 in one
partition and Kubuntu 8.10 at another one.

However, the external HD (/dev/sd?) is still an absolutely blank spot
on the Linux map :-).....

> in the last line(s) of this command's output, you should see the device
> name(s) for your ntfs drive and for your fat32 drive, respectively.
I wish you were right. But above you can see the harsh reality.....


> Then try to mount one or the other (only one at a time, then umount it
> before mounting the other) to your directory like this, assuming that
> /dev/sdb2 is your partition from fdisk -l

As you can see above, "/dev/sdb2" is simply one of the partitions at
the 180 GB inbuilt HD, "/dev/sdb". So, I carried out this terminal
command:

bas at Viaconsensus1:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc2 /mnt

This feedback came out:

mount: special device /dev/sdc2 does not exist

Here are a few other tests and their results:

bas at Viaconsensus1:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt
mount: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist
bas at Viaconsensus1:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc /mnt
mount: No medium found

> then please report back whether this works and if not, what happened.

See above......

Respectfully yours,

Bas.



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