usb hardrive

[Neil]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> My usb hard drive sdh1 shows up at the bottom of the below list in terminal. There is no icon in ( places, home) to open.  I assume this is because it is not mounted at start up. I plan to do all my backups to this drive. Without backup I feel pretty naked when it comes to trying to get the partition to mount at start up. I don't need all my files screwed up.  I am not really sure mounting is the problem.
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> Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x028ef790
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>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1       23993   192723741   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2           23994       24321     2634660    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5           23994       24321     2634628+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
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> Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x09a43bda
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>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1       30401   244196001   83  Linux
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> Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0009e195
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>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdc1               1       19457   156288321   83  Linux
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> Disk /dev/sdh: 250.0 GB, 250059349504 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x32ab94cc
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>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdh1               1       30401   244196001   83  Linux
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Hello

To mount the disk automatically there are 2 ways: a graphical one
(fancy gui) and a konsole one. I know and use the console one.

Open a terminal/console
enter: "sudo nano /etc/fstab" and your password

add the line: "UUID=0x32ab94cc /media/data ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 3"
if you want to have it default mounted at /media/data (you can use
every location you want there. If you'd prefer "/backup", be my guest)

ctrl-x
y
<enter>

Create the folder to mount it:
"sudo mkdir /media/data" (password if requested)

Now the disk will automount at boot

If this doesn't work, could you give us the response of "mount"?

Hope it helps

Neil

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