[mdlug] External Hard Drives: Mounting, Unmounting, Partial Mounting?

[Michael ORourke]

Sounds like 'Gutsy' sees the device (sdb), which is good.  You didn't say if you tried to mount the filesystem you created on sdb from gparted.  From the output of your "df -k" command, I don't see any sdb devices mounted.
You could mount it manually, assuming that your filesystem is on the first partition, you would do something like:
mkdir /external
mount /dev/sdb1 /external  
The mountpoint "/external" is just a suggestion.  For Ubuntu, it would most likely be under /mnt or /media. 
Or you could also mount the device from gparted.
As far as the disk space issue goes, the 320G number is probably just the manufacturer's disk capacity rating in bytes, the actual formatted space will be less.
Not sure about the camera device, or what it's trying to do.

-Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Elisa Gomez <shmi85 at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Jan 17, 2008 11:31 PM
>To: mdlug at mdlug.org
>Subject: [mdlug] External Hard Drives: Mounting, Unmounting,	Partial Mounting?
>
>First, sorry I've missed the last two meetings!
>Hopefully you'll see my shining happy face again in
>February.
>
>Second, I am having all sorts of difficulty with this
>usb external hard drive that my mom just gifted me
>with. First, I want to say that I don't want to run
>another OS on here and boot into this occasionally or
>do anything fancy unless it's necessary to get this to
>work properly -- I just want to be able to save/back
>up data to the external drive . . . Kind of like if I
>had a folder on my desktop that magically had 320gigs
>of space in it.
>
>But for whatever reason, Ubuntu (Gutsy) seems to only
>be partially recognizing the drive. I've labelled it
>(msdos) and formatted it (ext2) with gparted. At
>least, I *think* I have. It shows up in gparted as
>/dev/sdb as a seperate item without a mountpoint and
>this is what I get when I run df -k in terminal:
>
>Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available
>Use% Mounted on
>/dev/sda2             16468952   8821640   6810728 
>57% /
>varrun                  513208       148    513060  
>1% /var/run
>varlock                 513208         0    513208  
>0% /var/lock
>udev                    513208        84    513124  
>1% /dev
>devshm                  513208         0    513208  
>0% /dev/shm
>lrm                     513208     34696    478512  
>7% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile
>/dev/sda1             41094232  25192552  15901680 
>62% /media/IBM_PRELOAD
>
>So it doesn't actually seem to be there. Or am I
>misreading the output? It also doesn't show up
>graphically anywhere, as a desktop icon, as an option
>in the Places menu, etc. I can't save to it if I
>create a new file and Save As. Also, in gparted, the
>drive is showing up as 298gigs instead of 320gigs,
>which makes me feel like something windows related is
>installed on there.
>
>I'm having similar mounting problems with my camera --
>it worked the first couple of times but now it seems
>to only partially mount -- it'll get recognized, but
>then it'll freeze up and g-thumb (which runs
>automatically) will claim that there's no camera
>mounted. Like, what the heck am I doing wrong here?
>Any ideas? Should I be going about this external drive
>issue differently?
>
>Lastly, Lessig released The Future of Ideas under a
>creative commons license, which I thought was pretty
>cool. Check it out here: http://lessig.org/blog/2008/01/the_future_of_ideas_is_now_fre_1.html
>
>
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