USB Hard drive Errors

[MG]

/mnt/usb* I meant yeah it now shows usb1 usb2 usb 3 usb4
but no innaccurate free space

2009/4/18 Daniel Dalton <daniel.dalton at iinet.net.au>

> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 05:03:06PM +0100, MG wrote:
> >    I got the hard drives in dev/usb1 etc by messing around
> >    is it possible to mount them and be able to tell me the correct size?
> Should be /dev/sd*...?
> Unless ubuntu does things differently. When you plug it in ru:
> sudo dmesg | tail
>
> This should tell you the location of your hardrive; be sure to mount the
> partition  not the device eg.
> /dev/sdx1 not /dev/sx sdx is the device, sx1 is the file system with
> your data, or sx2 or whatever.
>
> >      I already selected NTFS writing
>
> Shouldn't gnome mount it automatically for you? If not, do something
> like
> sudo mount -t ntfs device mmntpoint.
>
> man mount for more details.
>
> Daniel.
>
>
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