mounting

[Christoph Georgi]

right mouse click on the desktop icon and unmount or

# sudo umount /dev/hdc


.christoph

altern wrote:
> ok now it works, just i dont know how to unmount it :)
> thanks
> 
> 
> Thomas Beckett wrote:
> 
>> 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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>>> enrike
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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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