[ubuntu-za] lacie rugged, external hdd
Hannes Coetzee
scorpking at eshowecompcentre.co.za
Wed Dec 10 20:39:34 GMT 2008
Something else to keep in mind - A volume label with weird characters
will also cause mounting problems and stop udev from handling the disk
properly.
Regards
Hannes
> Thank you all who were in volved in helping me fix this,
> this community really does make a difference
> cheerz
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Louis van der Merwe
> <themandibleclaw at gmail.com <mailto:themandibleclaw at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I think it's because of the dodgy way that the drive was
> partitioned ...
>
> if you're not planning on redo-ing the partition table, you can
> make life a bit easier for yourself
> by label'ing the disk and then adding it to /etc/fstab
>
> then it should atleast always mount to the same place for you.
>
> glad you came right though
>
>
> 2008/12/9 David Mark Bodmer <david.bodmer at gmail.com
> <mailto:david.bodmer at gmail.com>>
>
> yes that worked, i see my data.
> my question now would be, why does it not act the same as any
> other flash or ext hdd?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Hilton Gibson
> <hgibson at sun.ac.za <mailto:hgibson at sun.ac.za>> wrote:
>
> David Mark Bodmer wrote:
> > dmb at dmb-desktop:~$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb5 /mnt
> > [sudo] password for dmb:
> > mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> > (then i tried this one)
> > dmb at dmb-desktop:~$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb5 /mnt
> > dmb at dmb-desktop:~$
> >
> > but when i look in the media folder or anywhere i cant
> see any sign of it
> ok. type
>
> df -h
>
> or
>
> mount
>
> to see where it is mounted.
>
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Louis van der Merwe <
> > themandibleclaw at gmail.com
> <mailto:themandibleclaw at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi David,
> >> try mounting sdb5 and not sdb1.
> >>
> >> sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb5 /mnt
> >>
> >> or
> >>
> >> sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb5 /mnt
> >>
> >> failing that, I'd whack that partition table and
> repartition the disk.
> >>
> >> cheers
> >>
> >> Louis
> >>
> >>
> >> 2008/12/9 David Mark Bodmer <david.bodmer at gmail.com
> <mailto:david.bodmer at gmail.com>>
> >>
> >>> sudo fdisk -l
> >>>
> >>> ----------------------------
> >>> Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> >>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> >>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >>> Disk identifier: 0xf91cc906
> >>>
> >>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id
> System
> >>> /dev/sdb1 1 38913 312568641 f
> W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> >>> /dev/sdb5 1 38913 312568578 b
> W95 FAT32
> >>> ----------------------------
> >>>
> >>> i see that it is Fat32, but also i see the ext'd LBA?
> not sure what that
> >>> is, and given its the starting block i presume it
> could be causing the issue
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Louis van der Merwe <
> >>> themandibleclaw at gmail.com
> <mailto:themandibleclaw at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> you can also see more info on the drive by typing :
> >>>> sudo fdisk -l
> >>>>
> >>>> 2008/12/9 Louis van der Merwe
> <themandibleclaw at gmail.com <mailto:themandibleclaw at gmail.com>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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
> <mailto: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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