Mounting issue

[cscj01]

I have recently had a hard drive go bad. I had a current backup on an external USB hard drive on an XP machine on my home network. I use luckyBackup to back up the disk on a regular basis. In order to do this, I would mount the USB drive on the XP machine to my local Ubuntu machine at /mnt/cp2 with the command

sudo mount /mnt/cp2
Then my luckyBackup script would execute.

In order to copy my backup to my new hard drive in the most efficient manner, I attached the USB backup drive to my Ubuntu machine and copied the contents of the backup drive to the new hard drive. I then moved the USB drive back to the XP machine. I checked all the share properties on the USB drive on the XP machine, and, where necessary, reset them to share the drive.

Herein lies the problem. I can no longer mount the USB drive locally. When I issue the command

sudo mount /mnt/cp2
I get the following message:

Retrying with upper case share name
mount error(6): No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I can access the USB drive by going through Places>Network>CP2, but luckyBackup seems to require it be mounted locally. The /mnt/cp2 folder is present in my file system.

Any ideas?

[cscj01]

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[Gnofwarwick]

By unplugging the USB drive, you have likely created a different mount point when it was plugged back in - that's not a problem nor a fault.

after you have connected to the external drive as normal using the Places/Network, then drop to the command line and type ls -ltu /mnt/ and look for a mount point that it newer (in time).

Then sudo mount /mnt/<new dir> as normal

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[cscj01]

By unplugging the USB drive, you have likely created a different mount point when it was plugged back in - that's not a problem nor a fault.

after you have connected to the external drive as normal using the Places/Network, then drop to the command line and type ls -ltu /mnt/ and look for a mount point that it newer (in time).

Then sudo mount /mnt/<new dir> as normal

Thanks for your response. Here's the result of your suggestion:

ls -ltu /mnt/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-04-11 12:13 cp2


I am not sure what this tells me except that the mount point cp2 exists in /mnt. In Places>Network, I have cp2. In cp2, the drive shows as
Data(g) and in properties the location is
smb://cp2/ I believe this means it is a Samba share. If I try to mount it, I get the message in my original post,
Retrying with upper case share name
mount error(6): No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
If I unmount the Samba share
Data(g) on cp2 and try to mount the drive, I get the same error.

Perhaps this has something to do with the sharing options I have set on the drive on the XP machine?

I believe before this adventure began, the drive showed as
g on cp2 rather than as
Data(g) on cp2 Does this indicate something significant?

Thanks again for your help.

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[cscj01]

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This problem is resolved. The share name
Data(g)on the XP machine was reset to the default when I re-attached the drive. Before it had been
g When I reset the share name to g and issued the command
sudo mount /mnt/cp2it mounted locally.

I am still not sure where I should look to see where the values are stored (i.e., /etc maybe) that relate to local mounting of samba shares, but the problem of being able to back up my data using luckyBackup is solved. Thanks again, Gnofwarwick.