[ubuntu-za] lacie rugged, external hdd

[Louis van der Merwe]

Hi David,
-t auto should prompt mount to automatically detect the file system type.

If you're sure it's ntfs, try this:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt



2008/12/9 David Mark Bodmer <david.bodmer at gmail.com>

> dmb at dmb-desktop:~$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /mnt
> [sudo] password for dmb:
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>
> ? sorry i dont know the parameter to set the filesystem type, im sure its
> ntfs though
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> The format shouldn't be a problem. If it's NTFS and you don't "safely
>> remove" it from windows, you will see a message in the output from dmesg
>> which indicates this. So I don't think it's your problem. In any case,  if
>> it was, you could just type "sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt -o force"
>> and it would sort you out.
>>
>> As an experiment, why not try the following and see what it says:
>>
>> sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /mnt
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Louis
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