Mounting my EHD, editing Fstab

[Tony Corbett]

   i tried this:

corbett at corbett-desktop:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda /media/HD_manual
   Usage: mount -V                 : print version
          mount -h                 : print this help
          mount                    : list mounted filesystems
          mount -l                 : idem, including volume labels
   So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
   The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
   Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
          mount -a [-t|-O] ...     : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
          mount device             : mount device at the known place
          mount directory          : mount known device here
          mount -t type dev dir    : ordinary mount command
   Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
   a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
   One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
          mount --bind olddir newdir
   or move a subtree:
          mount --move olddir newdir
   A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
   or by label, using  -L label  or by uuid, using  -U uuid .
   Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
   For many more details, say  man 8 mount .
   corbett at corbett-desktop:~$ 
   
  
 

> Subject: RE: Mounting my EHD, editing Fstab
> From: mario.vukelic at dantian.org
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:45:38 +0200
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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