Missing hard drive space
jdow
jdow at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 20 20:50:17 UTC 2009
Er OK - which is the "freecom?" If it is the vfat drive then you
need to change the filesystem portion of the fstab entry from
vfat to ntfs-ng.
And by working do you mean you got all the way through the UUID
"thing"?
{o.o}
----- Original Message -----
From: "MG" <m.s0128532 at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, 2009/April/20 13:33
> 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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