Mounting a hard disk

[Paul Smith]

On Nov 30, 2007 6:02 PM, Preston Hagar <prestonh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > I am new to Ubuntu, and I would like to mount a hard disk that Ubuntu
> > > > > > did not mount automatically. How can I mount it manually?
> > > > > >
> > > > > try this
> > > > >
> > > > > sudo mount /dev/hdd1 /media/yournewdrive
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, Isaru. The point is that I do not know whether it is hdb, hdc,
> > > > hdd, etc.? How can I learn that?
> > >
> > > Two different ways to do this (there are probably more than two, these
> > > are just the two off of the top of my head):
> > >
> > > run this command:
> > >
> > > dmesg | less
> > >
> > > and look for hd or sd entries.  If you new disk is SATA or SCSI, it
> > > will start with sd, not hd.
> > >
> > > Way 2:
> > >
> > > sudo apt-get install lshw
> > > sudo lshw -class disk
> > >
> > > This should list all of the disks in your machine.
> >
> > Thanks, Preston. I am trying the following but with no success:
> >
> > # mount /dev/sdb2 /media/iso
> > mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'
> > root at mypc:/home/paulus# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb2 /media/iso
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2,
> >        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> >        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> >        dmesg | tail  or so
> >
> > #
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> Well, it looks like /dev/sdb2 is part of an LVM setup.  Possibly this
> drive was setup previously using LVM, or maybe this drive is a member
> of your main LVM setup and the drive you actually want is something
> different.  Unfortunately, I haven't used LVM very much, so I am not
> very familiar with it.  Here are a couple of How-Tos and guides to
> hopefully help out:
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lvm/
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lvm2.html
>
> You may also try posting the output from dmesg (without the | less) or
> the output from the lshw -class disks command.  It might help me or
> someone else figure out exactly what is setup.
>
> Sorry I can't be of more help.

That is fine, Preston. Maybe someone else will help me.

Paul