[SOLVED] external hdd problems

[Truant_84]

So, I'm unable to mount my external hard drive and am given the message "mount point cannot contain the following characters: newline, G_DIR_SEPARATOR (usually /). Advice would be greatly appreciated.

[halitech]

can you post the output of

sudo fdisk -l

thats a lower case L not the number 1 in case you are typing it in

[cariboo]

When mounting a hard drive from the command line, it will not mount on a mount point with a space in the name, For mount points you should use and underscore, instead of a space.

Jim

[Truant_84]

here you go!

Disk /dev/sda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3cd93cd8

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4905 39399381 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4906 4998 747022+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4906 4998 746991 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x41ffc810

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 60801 488384001 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
zach@Zach:~$

[Truant_84]

bump

[halitech]

when you plug the drive in, do you not get an icon on your desktop?

[Truant_84]

No icon on the desktop. So I realized that what happened was that I changed the name of the mounting point in the hard drives settings, thinking that I was just changing the name of the hard-drive, now that the hard drive won't mount, I can't change the settings back to the original mounting point.

[halitech]

run this in the terminal

gksu gedit /etc/fstab

and see if the drive is listed there

[Truant_84]

this is what I get

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=fdca023e-13a1-4b12-9541-91e6c909eabd / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=af5125fd-99e6-451c-a654-8e338f416bd4 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[halitech]

darn, was hoping it was there

how did you rename the drive and where did you do it?

have you tryied unplugging it, restarting and plugging it back in?