Missing hard drive space

Mon Apr 20 20:33:41 UTC 2009

the freecom works not others tho

On 20/04/2009, jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Oh - that may be a problem. So let's simply try pulling the USB drives,
> rebooting to get a clean place to work, and then manually mount the
> VFAT drive, the 400G drive. If you can manually mount it successfully
> then you can follow the steps below for creating your fstab entries.
>
> Check to make sure the drive loaded as sdb by using fdisk or something
> similar, "sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb". If that works the drive is sdb. Try
> also for sdc in case something remembers it was at one time sdc.
>
>
> sudo mkdir /media/External/400GB
>
> sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/External/400GB
> (or if that fails "sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /media/External/400GB")
>
> If you can get that far the first trial fstab entry should work - after
> you "sudo umount /media/External/400GB".
>
> Note I am using the drive sizes to disambiguate the naming. Once you
> get them mounting the way you want you can go on to create the real
> mount points you want to use and make the necessary change in fstab.
>
>
> {^_^}
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MG" <m.s0128532 at gmail.com>
>
> Sent: Monday, 2009/April/20 12:52
>
>
> > how do I get Windows back?
> >
> > On 20/04/2009, jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> First step I'd make sure the device still mounts on Windows. I believe
> >> you've said they are USB based devices. So make sure you "safely
> >> remove hardware" to dismount the drives before going back to Linux.
> >>
> >> If it mounts for Windows and you dismount it properly it should mount
> >> on Linux. That's appararently your FAT based disk. So you should not
> >> try mounting it NTFS. And you are not.
> >>
> >> If they are USB devices they may change device numbers depending on
> >> the order in which they are detected or inserted. So labels or UUIDs
> >> are a better approach.
> >>
> >> Presuming you are in Linux comment out the lines for the three USB
> >> drives.
> >>
> >> Then make sure the disks are "clean" on Windows and dismounted cleanly.
> >>
> >> Leave them disconnected and boot Linux.
> >>
> >> Now plug in the drive designated as /dev/sdc originally. It's the
> >> 400.0 GB drive.
> >>
> >> Check that the drive was found using fdisk on /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc
> >> (etc). Once you find it we can start rebuilding fstab, slowly and
> >> methodically.
> >>
> >> Presuming that it's /dev/sdb, since it is the only other drive
> >> attached, create a line in /etc/fstab that looks like this:
> >>
> >> sudo /dev/sdb1  /media/External/400GB vfat rw,hard,intr    0  0
> >>
> >> Create the /media/External/400GB mountpoint directory.
> >> (sudo mkdir /media/External/400GB)
> >>
> >> Now we're ready to "sudo mount /dev/sdb1". If that worked we're part
> >> way there. Now unmount it and let's edit the fstab again.
> >> sudo umount /dev/sdb1
> >>
> >> You ran vol-id while this drive was drive C - I think. (If you have
> >> been plugging and uplugging the drives the data may be wrong. So
> >> check it again running vol-id against /dev/sdb in this case.)
> >>
> >> Edit the line in fstab starting with /dev/sdc1 to change "/dev/sdc1"
> >> to "UUID=17E8-082F".
> >>
> >> Now try "sudo mount /media/External/400GB". If that worked you are
> >> nearly home free.
> >>
> >> Repeat for mountpoints /media/External/320GB and /media/External/160GB.
> >> Make sure you have the drive UUID's correct and working. Then it will
> >> not matter in which order the drives are discovered on boot up or as
> >> you plug and unplug them. If you plug and unplug with Linux running you
> >> must use "umount" to dismount the drive before unplugging it. And you
> >> may need to use "mount" to mount the drive after plugging it in. If you
> >> plan to have them always present you can change the final zeros on the
> >> fstab lines to 2 and have them mount at boot time.
> >>
> >> {^_^}
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "MG" <m.s0128532 at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions"
> >> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >>
> >> Sent: Monday, 2009/April/20 11:44
> >> Subject: Re: Missing hard drive space
> >>
> >>
> >> > Some progress, any ideas now?
> >> > Thx!
> >> >
> >> > root at THUNDERCAT1:/home/max# sudo mount -a
> >> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
> >> >       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> >> >       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> >> >       dmesg | tail  or so
> >> >
> >> > $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 1).
> >> > Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error
> >> > NTFS is either inconsistent, or you have hardware faults, or you have
> a
> >> > SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
> >> > then reboot into Windows TWICE. The usage of the /f parameter is very
> >> > important! If you have SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first you must activate
> >> > it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory,
> (e.g.
> >> > /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
> >> > for the details.
> >> > NTFS signature is missing.
> >> > Failed to mount '/dev/sdd1': Invalid argument
> >> > The device '/dev/sdd1' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
> >> > Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
> >> > partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?
> >> > root at THUNDERCAT1:/home/max#
> >> >
> >> > # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> >> > #
> >> > #  -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
> >> > #
> >> > # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> >> >
> >> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> >> > # Entry for /dev/sda1 :
> >> > UUID=d053ecd0-1482-4cfc-8b34-1d821a41f843 / ext3
> >> > relatime,errors=remount-ro
> >> > 0 1
> >> > # Entry for /dev/sda5 :
> >> > UUID=8c6a2356-9c6b-4ef1-9b65-8e6edbf76120 none swap sw 0 0
> >> > /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
> >> > none       /mnt/ramfs      tmpfs      defaults  0 0
> >> > # Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
> >> > /dev/sdc1       /media/External/usb1      vfat      rw,hard,intr  2 2
> >> > # Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
> >> > /dev/sdb1       /media/External/usb2      ntfs-3g      rw,hard,intr  2
> >> > 2
> >> > # Entry for /dev/sdd1 :
> >> > /dev/sdd1       /media/External/usb3      ntfs-3g      rw,hard,intr  2
> >> > 2
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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