mounting

[Thomas Beckett]

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:50:32 +0100, altern <enrike at altern.org> wrote:
> hi
> 
> I have an external USB hardrive, and i am not sure about how to mount
> it. I have been cheching websites but i am still confused
> 
> Also, how do i set the CDrom and audio CD to be automounted when they
> are inserted on the drive? Doesnt seem to work so far.
> 
> i am running warty
> 
> thanks
> 
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The best thing to do is to unplug your usb drive and plug it back in
again. Then at a terminal run:

dmesg | tail

This will show you the last bits of kernel output and will hopefully
show that a device is created on /dev/<something>
Im not sure what the <something> will be as i don have a USB hard
disk, I Have a flash drive and that gets created on /dev/sd1 if
remember correctly.

When you know where the device is created you can try mounting it manually:

from the terminal - 

sudo mkdir /mnt/usbDisk

sudo mount /dev/<something> /mnt/usbDisk

This should hopefully mount it fine. If no errors are returned it will
be accessable under /mnt/usbDisk.

if any problems then paste the output of dmesg | tail and also  lsusb
and someone will be abnle to help you further.
-Of course it could all be doen differently with usb hard disks, but
its somewhere to try...

Tom

Hope this gets you closer

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