Yes, i know what you mean by that....below is the output.<br>
<br>
fdisk /dev/sda<br>
<br>
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 5005.<br>
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,<br>
and could in certain setups cause problems with:<br>
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)<br>
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs<br>
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)<br>
<br>
Command (m for help): p m<br>
<br>
Disk /dev/sda: 41.1 GB, 41174138880 bytes<br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5005 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
<br>
Device Boot
Start
End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/sda1
*
1 5005
40202631 7 HPFS/NTFS<br>
<br>
Command (m for help):<br>
<br>
I mounted it as....<br>
<br>
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda /media/usb_drive<br>
<br>
when i should be mounting as <br>
<br>
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/usb_drive<br>
<br>
Many thank yous to all who help out on this. Everything is now fine and i can read it :)<br>
<br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Shannon Carver</b> <<a href="mailto:Shannon.Carver@p-s-t.com.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Shannon.Carver@p-s-t.com.au
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">That's exactly what Hendrik is
asking.. You don't mount a device by:</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">mount –t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/Storage</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">That's mounting the device itself</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">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)</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">mount –t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/Storage</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">What would probably be best it to print
out the output of fdisk –l /dev/sda back to the list.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Regards</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Shannon</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;" lang="EN-US">
<a href="mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">plug-bounces@plug.org.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
plug-bounces@plug.org.au</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Open Source.Lives<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 15 March 2006
5:24 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:plug@plug.org.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">plug@plug.org.au</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [plug] Having trouble
mounting external usb drive</span></font><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi Hendrik,<br>
<br>
fdisk -l /dev/sda<br>
<br>
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...<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks for the reply.</span></font></p>
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<p><span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 3/15/06, <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hendrik
Strydom</span></b> <<a href="mailto:hns1@iinet.net.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hns1@iinet.net.au</a>>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 20:44 +0800, Nikhil Jogia wrote:<br>
> Open Source.Lives wrote:<br>
> > Hi there,<br>
> ><br>
> > Currently i am trying to mount my external usb drive, i am using<br>
> > debian sarge with a 2.4 kernal and the following dmesg tells me that<br>
> > is detected, but when i try to mount it it tells me that the volume
is<br>
> > probably in a format that cannot be mounted in the GUI.<br>
.. snip<br>
> > <br>
> > sg_scan -i<br>
> ><br>
> > /dev/sg0: scsi1 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em]<br>
> >
IC35L040 AVVN07-0 VA2O
[rmb=0 cmdq=0 pqual=0 pdev=0x0]<br>
> ><br>
> > and<br>
> ><br>
> > sg_map<br>
> ><br>
> > /dev/sg0 /dev/sda<br>
> ><br>
> > and for fstab<br>
> ><br>
> >
/dev/sda /media/usb_drive vfat<br>
> >
rw,user,noauto 0
0<br>
> ><br>
> > while on the console.<br>
> ><br>
> > mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/usb_drive<br>
> ><br>
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,<br>
> > missing codepage or
other error <br>
> > In some cases useful
info is found in syslog - try<br>
> > dmesg |
tail or so<br>
<br>
What does fdisk -l /dev/sda report?<br>
Is you partition not perhaps on sda1 as it would be for a conventional <br>
hard disk?<br>
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