[plug] Having trouble mounting external usb drive

[Open Source.Lives]

Yes, i know what you mean by that....below is the output.

fdisk /dev/sda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 5005.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p m

Disk /dev/sda: 41.1 GB, 41174138880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5005 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        5005    40202631    7  HPFS/NTFS

Command (m for help):

I mounted it as....

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda /media/usb_drive

when i should be mounting as

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/usb_drive

Many thank yous to all who help out on this. Everything is now fine and i
can read it :)




On 3/15/06, Shannon Carver <Shannon.Carver at p-s-t.com.au> wrote:
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>  That's exactly what Hendrik is asking.. You don't mount a device by:
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> mount –t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/Storage
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> That's mounting the device itself
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> You want to mount the physical partition on the device: (Note, the hda1,
> or in your case sdaX where X is the number of the partition)
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> mount –t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/Storage
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> What would probably be best it to print out the output of fdisk –l
> /dev/sda back to the list.
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> Regards
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> Shannon
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> *From:* plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto: plug-bounces at plug.org.au] *On
> Behalf Of *Open Source.Lives
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 15 March 2006 5:24 PM
> *To:* plug at plug.org.au
> *Subject:* Re: [plug] Having trouble mounting external usb drive
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> Hi Hendrik,
>
> fdisk -l /dev/sda
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> Did list the filesystem, but when I try to mount it using -t ntfs or vfat
> it still gave me the same error, I have tried -t usbfs, where it mounted it
> but it displayed incorrect files...
>
> I was wondering if i missed any stages when i tried to mount my usb hdd?
> Is there a set way of mounting usb devices?
>
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> On 3/15/06, *Hendrik Strydom* <hns1 at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 20:44 +0800, Nikhil Jogia wrote:
> > Open Source.Lives wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > Currently i am trying to mount my external usb drive, i am using
> > > debian sarge with a 2.4 kernal and the following dmesg tells me that
> > > is detected, but when i try to mount it it tells me that the volume is
> > > probably in a format that cannot be mounted in the GUI.
> .. snip
> > >
> > > sg_scan -i
> > >
> > > /dev/sg0: scsi1 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em]
> > >     IC35L040  AVVN07-0          VA2O [rmb=0 cmdq=0 pqual=0 pdev=0x0]
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > sg_map
> > >
> > > /dev/sg0  /dev/sda
> > >
> > > and for fstab
> > >
> > > /dev/sda        /media/usb_drive        vfat
> > > rw,user,noauto                  0       0
> > >
> > > while on the console.
> > >
> > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/usb_drive
> > >
> > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
> > >        missing codepage or other error
> > >        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> > >        dmesg | tail  or so
>
> What does fdisk -l /dev/sda report?
> Is you partition not perhaps on sda1 as it would be for a conventional
> hard disk?
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