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

Aaron Kulkis akulkis3 at hotpop.com
Sun Jan 20 19:49:21 EST 2008


Michael Corral wrote:
> 2008-01-20, Monsieur Elisa Gomez a ecrit:
>> 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
> 
> Ah. OK, I think I see what your problem is.
> Your machine is named 'trotsky', which means it will be about as
> successful as the 'Fourth International' was. :p
> Rename it to 'lenin' and everything should start working. :)
> 

Either that, or it will just start to executing random
programs, in more ways than one, while others just
"disappear."

Maybe thatcher, kennedy or reagan would be better :-)





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