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    Mounting Unkown USB hard drive

    I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and I have a 320gb external no-name hard drive that i want to use. The light shows that the drive is working properly. I can't find the drive listed in my computer.

    A generic USB drive files shows up in my /dev/disk/by-id I have a sdb listed in /dev I made a directory for sdb in /media and used the command to mount it

    Code:
    sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/sdb
    I got a red light on the drive, and the error
    Code:
    mount: mount point /media/sbd does not exist
    The drive enclosure does not state that is supports linux. Am I screwed?
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    Re: Mounting Unkown USB hard drive

    Does this disk have anything on it? If not, you need to partition in with gParted and give it a filesystem. Then, mount the partition on it:
    Code:
    sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb

    Edit,
    And of course, /media/sdb must exist.
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    Re: Mounting Unkown USB hard drive

    Code:
    sudo mkdir /media/sdb
    And then mount it.
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    Re: Mounting Unkown USB hard drive

    I made sure i had /media/sdb created before I tried what I did. So I was heading in the right direction.

    So I am going to let it format the drive in ext3.

    Now what is the best way to copy a whole drive over to the usb drive? I am upgrading to a larger drive in my laptop.
    Desktop:ECS nForce4M -A, AMD x2 +4800, 2gb DDR2 800, BFG 8500gt, WD 320gb, M-audio Audiophile 192 Ubuntu 7.10
    Laptop:System 76 Pangolin Value Intel T5250 1.5ghz 1gb DDR2 667, 60gb HD, 8600gt 256mb Ubuntu 8.04

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    Re: Mounting Unkown USB hard drive

    This might point you in the right direction:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=599599

    Found thread through K.Mandla's Tip of the Week - You might want to Bookmark - Good stuff:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=655207&page=2

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