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

[Aaron Kulkis]

Elisa Gomez wrote:
> Elisa Gomez wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
> From: "Carl T. Miller" <carl at carltm.com>
>> If your device and its partition(s) are listed in
> the > output,
>> run the command "mount" to see if the partition(s) 
>> was mounted.
>> If it's not listed, you can create a directory such 
>> as /mnt/usb
>> and run "mount -t auto /dev/sdXX /mnt/usb",
> replacing > the XX with
>> a letter and number.
> 
>> If that works, you can "ls /mnt/usb" and see your 
>> files.  If
>> it doesn't work, let us know how far you get in the 
>> process.
> 
>> c
> 
> The first time I manually mounted, I followed Mike's
> suggestion and ran "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt" which worked
> great.
> 
> I suspended and when I woke the laptop back up, the
> disk had unmounted itself and wasn't remounted
> automatically. I tried running "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt"
> again and I got an error message which I didn't think
> to save because after about 30 seconds, the disk
> automounted without me having to do it manually.
> 
> I suspended again, woke up, it was unmounted again and
> ran "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt". This time I got "mount:
> special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist". So I ran
> "fdisk -l":
> 
> emg at trotsky:~$ fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/sdc: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0005d416
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id
>  System
> /dev/sdc1               1       38913   312568641   83
>  Linux
> emg at trotsky:~$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdc /mnt
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> emg at trotsky:~$ sudo mount -ext2 /dev/sdc /mnt
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> Then the help page for mount popped up which
> unhelpfully didn't note how I'm supposed to format my
> filesystem type argument. That's where I'm stuck now,
> foiled, as usual, by a single dash.
> 
> Duh. As I was writing this, I ran:
> 
> emg at trotsky:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt
> emg at trotsky:~$ mount
> /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> blahblahblah
> /dev/sdc1 on /mnt type ext2 (rw)
> 
> So now it should be mounted, correct? But that's not
> reflected in X. There's nothing graphical to indicate
> that it's mounted and I can't save a file (in X, I
> don't know how to do it via the command line) to the
> drive or anything. Can I rename it manually so it
> stops renaming itself every time I suspend?
> 
> ~Elisa

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