Can't mount my SATA drive

[Ed Fletcher]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> er, now it's working. I was away for a while so I rebooted. I had been
> issuing 
> 
> $ sudo umount -a
> 
> then
> 
> $sudo mount -a
> 
> I made sure I didn't have anything open from the dir in question. Oh
> well. It works, thanks for the help. Next time I'll stick to reboot to
> be safe.
> 
> Thanks - Duncan

Happy to see that you have everything running OK now.

But umount -a unmounts _everything_ in /etc/mtab.  If you use 'mount
/dev/sda1', then mount will check fstab to see where it goes.  And if
you have the 'user' option is fstab (which you do), then you don't need
sudo.

Anyway, I'm glad to see that you have it working.

Ed
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