Mounting my EHD, editing Fstab

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 19:20 +1000, Tony Corbett wrote:
> 
> are you sure the right mount command isn't the answer

Yes. If mounting worked, you wouldn't get the errors in the logs,
especially as other drives do mount automatically.


But in any case, you can try to mount manually. To mount as super user
(using sudo), you don't even need to edit /etc/fstab at all, and
therefore I'd recommend to try it this way first

First, create a directory to mount to, such as /media/HD_manual:

sudo mkdir /media/HD_manual

Open another terminal and run "tail -f /var/log/messages" again to see
the log output.

Then mount the device. This assumes that the external HD is /dev/sda (as
it was last time when I asked you to check and post the logs). <type> is
probably ext3, if what you wrote in your original message was correct:

sudo mount -t <type> /dev/sda /media/HD_manual


To unmount, run:

sudo umount /media/HD_manual