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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>That’s exactly what Hendrik is
asking.. You don’t mount a device by:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>mount –t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/Storage<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>That’s mounting the device itself<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;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)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>mount –t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/Storage<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Shannon<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
plug-bounces@plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au] <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> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">plug@plug.org.au</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [plug] Having trouble
mounting external usb drive</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 3/15/06, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Hendrik
Strydom</span></b> <<a href="mailto:hns1@iinet.net.au">hns1@iinet.net.au</a>>
wrote:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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>
<br>
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