Ubuntu can't see usb drive

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 22:54 +0100, Steve Flynn wrote: 
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Douglas Pollard
> <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>         On 06/06/2011 04:29 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>                 sudo fdisk -l
>         Ok Here is the output from Sudo Fdisk -l
>         
>         douglasdoug at ubuntuDoug:~$ sudo fdisk -l
>         [sudo] password for douglasdoug:
>         
>         Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
>         255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
>         Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>         Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>         I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>         Disk identifier: 0x000f29df
>         
>           Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>         /dev/sda1   *           1       23995   192734208   83  Linux
>         /dev/sda2           23995       24322     2624513    5
>          Extended
>         /dev/sda5           23995       24322     2624512   82  Linux
>         swap / Solaris
>         
>         Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
>         255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
>         Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>         Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>         I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>         Disk identifier: 0x000d4675
>         
>           Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>         /dev/sdb1               1       30400   244187968+   7
>          HPFS/NTFS
>         
>         Disk /dev/sdc: 2000.4 GB, 2000398932992 bytes
>         255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
>         Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>         Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>         I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>         Disk identifier: 0x0000e557
>         
>           Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>         /dev/sdc1   *           1      243201  1953512001    c  W95
>         FAT32 (LBA)
>         douglasdoug at ubuntuDoug:~$ 
>         

> 
> I don't see a 150Gb drive there - I assume you really mean a 200GB
> drive and it's sda - it contains your linux install.
> Your 250GB drive is sdb - ths is formatted NTFS.
> You have a 2TB drive as sdc - it's a FAT32 drive.
So, that would be
mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt
correct? Ric


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